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...Heads fans of long-standing will notice the difference, say, between an early song about America called The Big Country, with its disaffected chorus ("I wouldn't live there if you paid me to"); and True Stories' anthemic City of Dreams, with its poignant, lulling melody and amber-waves-of-grain imagery: "We live in the city of dreams/ We drive on the highway of fire/ Should we awake/ And find it gone/ Remember this, our favorite town." Byrne finds the contrast untroubling. "I discovered that it's more fun to like things, that you can kind of like things...
...jinxed in oil and space and now ninthinning rallies, showed particular grace and unusual humor in defeat. A courageous child "soloist" in a pinafore came out on the infield and sang the national anthem before the last game, and the morning after the Chronicle reported, "Around 2 p.m., little Amber Pennington, seven years old, fought her way through The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series. Before the game was over, Amber joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts and went to her senior prom. She was married, had two children...
...each fastened with a nut as big as a layer cake, were tightened with a 30-ton hydraulic jack. Only one radical renovation was undertaken: Liberty's torch is entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make...
...myself." She claims not to have any favorites but says Springsteen "is the hardest to do. He's so masculine." Fans of the feminine side of Welch can look forward to the next television season. Her production company is doing a six-hour ABC mini-series based on Forever Amber, and she will have a starring role in the adaptation of the heavy-breathing best seller...
...almost a half-century, the sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Eugene Ormandy was one of the most gloriously distinctive in music. Inheriting a spirited ensemble from his flamboyant predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, Ormandy refined it until the strings turned to silk, the woodwinds to amber, the brass to gold. If Ormandy's interpretations of safe repertory standards such as Beethoven and Brahms symphonies were not always individual, the ravishing tonal beauty of his orchestra was often reward enough. "The Philadelphia sound -- it's me!" Ormandy said proudly, and it was less a boast than a statement of fact...