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...Kelly cherished as a singer? (There?s just one CD of Kelly songs, to Astaire?s dozen or so.) It could be that most of Fred?s tunes were written for him, while most of Kelly?s were oldies; and the new songs that Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote for "On the Town," "Singin? in the Rain" and "It?s Always Fair Weather" didn?t click. But the title number from "Singin? in the Rain" is nearly as memorable for Gene?s pipes - the giddy catch in his voice at "And I?m ready for love," the unaffected...
...glimpses I've gotten of Rusty and Andrea Yates make me think of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt's personification of such evil was Adolph Eichmann, the orderly and seemingly mild-mannered Nazi bureaucrat who helped orchestrate the killing of millions. The Yates's, too, in their own way, seemed somehow deeply and disturbingly ordinary...
...host countries want the Games' glitz to reflect on their national image, while carefully avoiding the Uber-patriotism of the disastrous Berlin Games in 1936, meant to showcase Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. Inter Asia, a foreign public-relations firm that briefly advised Beijing on its bid eight years ago, had urged officials to emphasize the city instead of the nation, history instead of politics, and generally to try to look nice. Officials ignored the suggestions. Factories forced workers to sign petitions supporting the Games. Police rounded up mentally handicapped citizens who might be glimpsed by Olympic officials from...
...projection of Kavalier's revenge fantasies. A young artist with Harry Houdini's ability to pick locks while holding his breath, Kavalier has escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin containing the mythic Golem of Prague, and yearns to make enough money to help his family flee Adolph Hitler, or Attila Haxoff as Kavalier's overly cautious boss at Empire Comics insists on calling the dictator...
Hearst began his lifetime of accumulation about the time Adolph Ochs bought the moribund New York Times. Ochs and his heirs produced something of enduring value; Hearst and his family and his cronies produced a host of second-rate newspapers and did much to poison the politics of their...