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Segal is survived by his wife, Nancy Jones, and their daughter, Cora, as well as two sons by a previous marriage, Joshua and Thaddeus, and two grandsons...
...Gene Lees, the lyricist who worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim on English-language adaptations of such bossa nova classics as "Desafinado" and "Corcovado" once commented that Brazilian songwriters tend to endlessly rhyme the words "song," "guitar" and "heart" - which actually do rhyme in Portuguese, cançao, violao and coraçao, respectively. Having attended the first week of Rock in Rio, having seen an endless procession of Brazilian bands, having heard an endless series of Brazilian songs, sweated under Brazilian sunlight, eaten Brazilian food, danced (or attempted to dance) Brazilian dances, I think I've gotten some idea...
...Cora Dulz is a psychiatrist who needs her head examined. She is sexually frustrated and has just lost two patients to suicide. What's more, she's infatuated with a new patient, Stanislaus Nagy, a disturbing young man who's fixated on Maria Callas. As this engagingly surreal short novel unfolds, the cagey Nagy claims to be the Devil, who apparently once inhabited Callas' poodle. Dulz's infatuation is propelled into obsession, and this can only lead to a bizarre denouement, in which, of course, there's hell...
...have made up my mind to begin my account upon the first occasion when I truly knew where things stood with me, that is, that afternoon of the day my father, Arthur Harkness, was taken to the Quincy graveyard and buried between my mother, Cora Mary Harkness, and his first wife, Ella Harkness...
...Woolworth stores, America's icons, are closing [BUSINESS, July 28]? Oh, no! So many memories for me and my family. Great Aunt Cora introduced me to Woolworth's in Los Angeles when I was four. Thereafter, Woolworth's, except for the demands of the ice-cream truck, captured my weekly allowance. Christmas shopping was a magnificent, looked-forward-to event, carefully planned and executed at Woolworth's every Christmastime throughout my childhood. Mine were always the best presents--or so I thought. Then, just last year, my daughter told me that she had gone to Woolworth's for the lipsticks...