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Forget Nothing. At 62, she made her third marriage-to Maurice Goudeket, a man 16 years younger than she. "Ah, la la!" she wrote to a friend. "A nice kettle of fish your girlfriend's in, and loving it, up to the eyes, up to the lips, and up to even further than that...
...Ah, merry swain, who laugh'd among the vales, And with your gay pipe made the mountains ring, Why leave your cot, your woods and thymy gales, And friends belov'd, for aught that wealth can bring...
...mistakenly support the current fad for blaming Detroit for our personal shortcomings. If cars were death-proof [April 1], if alcohol did not make you drunk, if the police were not brutal, if the Government would take care of me-ah, what a Camelot...
...cannot deny the quality of Hippolyte's inspired, innovative sections: the Trio for the Fates in the Hades scene, "Quelle soudaine horreur," with its macabre, Gesualdo-like modulations (superbly sung in the production); Phedre's pathetic scena, "Cruella mere des amours": the Act IV Hippolyte-Aricie duet, "Ah! fautil e un jour," with its revealing major-minor key shifts, and Aricie's closing "Nightingale Aria," one of the first soprano vs. flute bel canto trials...
...About Bret Harte and Ah Sin's "Poker" lesson [March 18]: I believe you have been euchred...