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...movie Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman, takes place in the police precinct where I lived. In the movie, the neighborhood is depicted as an urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace...
...into the making of a movie classic, but Alfred Hitchcock's timeless thriller is inseparable in our memory from Bernard Hermann's eldritch, bump-in-the-night score. Through out the Golden Age of Hollywood, the music of composers like Hermann, Erich Korngold, Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, Alfred Newman and others was an integral--and often unforgettable--part of the motion-picture experience. What is Gone With the Wind without Steiner's haunting Tara's Theme, or Lawrence of Arabia without Maurice Jarre's heroic, expansive opening music? Why can't they write them like that anymore...
...talented and widely respected economist. He has served me and this Administraiton with distincition as we have faced new interantioanl challenges. He is a man of shared vision and I have full confidence in him and in his ability to continue the strong leadership provided by Frank Newman," Clinton said in a release...
...FRONTIERS OF MEANING, A lively inquiry into music aesthetics published last year, Charles Rosen admiringly paraphrased painter Barnett Newman: "Musicology is for musicians what ornithology is for the birds...
...probably Newman's epigrammatic conciseness that Rosen savored, not any disdain for the discipline to which he has committed so much of his career. Still, the idea conveys a familiar question: Is anything to be gained from description, analysis and criticism of music that cannot be discerned by listening to the music? After all, medical philosophy, however well wrought, cannot save a life. In both disciplines, what matters is who is doing the dissecting...