Word: costello
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Still, Mary J. Costello, a social worker for the Windsor House Adult Day Care program, has nothing but praise for the new center...
...rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them. His hero is Rob Fleming, an aging, contemplative slacker who owns a London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date turn out to have...
...Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, lots of others offer sophisticated pleasures in a simple form. (Other pieces, played in eccentric signatures, are closer to cool jazz.) To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor. "His voice was a picture of the American past," says singer-composer Elvis Costello. "You could call it sepia-tinted. It's like one of those great old Civil War pictures that is so sharp it shocks you how much detail it holds, yet at the same time it's not in color." As for Garcia's guitar playing, Costello says it "wasn...
...Jack Costello, director of food services for the Chicago Public Schools, correctly points out the scarcity the cuts would bring: "We'll have to reduce the portions of food served" if the cuts go into effect, Costello says. "They [the kids] get little enough as it is. And studies show that a child who doesn't eat right doesn't do well in school." Ninety-five percent of the 275,000 lunches Costello serves each day go to students who can't afford to pay for lunch...
...became the Forties and the Fifties, and there were movies with people with names like Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe, Abbott and Costello. And there were movies called "Abbott and Costello Meet the Werewolf," of which the less said the better. And then there was Ed Wood, who was funny when he didn't mean to be. And then there was Billy Wilder, with movies like "Some Like it Hot"--thank Heaven...