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...recently listened to a marathon session of Sinatra's recordings. It was a revelation: hundreds of songs seemed to belong only to him. His diction was crystal clear, no slurring, no swallowing of words. His singing was pure, no pyrotechnics. The focus was on the words. But what really set Sinatra apart was his ability to inhabit a song. When Frank Sinatra sang, you felt he had lived what he was telling you. No other artist so disappears into the lyrics. DIANE DANIELLE Berkeley, Calif...
...sorry Helen Schulman suffered so much, but I feel her adolescent musings belong in a private journal instead of a published book. Many of us have mourned our loss of birth children privately within our hearts, in our therapy sessions and with our closest friends and family. Personally, I've been blessed with children through the adoption process. Take some advice from someone with two fabulous adult children: what you perceive as a "happy ending," the birth of a baby after so many unsuccessful tries, is really a beginning, and this is what we call life. Doors close, doors open...
Although brand recognition in the 20th century has been led by Mickey Mouse and Coca-Cola, perhaps the 21st century will belong to Viagra. Hurrah for the new millennium! Viagra, drugs and rock 'n' roll! ABID HUSSAIN SHAH Lahore, Pakistan...
...Chaplin's first night in New York in September 1910, he walked around the theater district, dazzled by its lights and movement. "This is it!" he told himself. "This is where I belong!" Yet he never became a U.S. citizen. An internationalist by temperament and fame, he considered patriotism "the greatest insanity that the world has ever suffered." As the Depression gave way to World War II and the cold war, the increasingly politicized message of his films, his expressed sympathies with pacifists, communists and Soviet supporters, became suspect. It didn't help that Chaplin, a bafflingly complex and private...
Prospective students are concerned about "wherethey would fit, where they'd belong," shecontinues, noting female undergraduates want tofeel like full citizens--without dividedloyalties...