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...Here, only death looks luscious: gunfire makes a gutted warehouse flare into brilliant orange, and the blood of strafed civilians waters the countryside, turning it into poppy fields. The drama is desaturated too. The soldiers have no ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does...
...only a few years ago that they installed a security system. All their children, three sons and a daughter, are grown. Walton typically rises before dawn and eats breakfast at the Ramada Inn coffee shop on his way to work. Along the way he may stop at Barber John Mayhall's for his monthly haircut, for which he pays $5 (no tip). While Bentonville offers few diversions, a favorite Friday-night spot for the Waltons is Fred's Hickory Inn, known for its ribs and cheesecake...
James David Barber, Duke University historian and author of The Presidential Character...
...arrangement dates back to 1962, when Gaudio and Valli, who came from working-class Italian neighborhoods in the Bronx and Newark, respectively, were only dreaming of hitting it big. At the time, Valli was a barber, Gaudio worked in a printing plant, and the Four Seasons was an unknown group playing on weekends in small clubs and bowling alleys. Sitting one evening in Valli's apartment in a Newark low-income housing project, the two friends decided to be partners forever and share their earnings equally. Recalls Gaudio: "We said, 'Neither one of us knows where we're going...
Igor Stravinsky and Serge Prokofiev are two great composers of our century who are difficult to label. Other 20th century composers of note include the Americans Gershwin, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Copland, and Leonard Bernstein, all of whom have had some limited success entering the standard repertoire...