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...Then rock 'n roll, as it became the dominant form of pop culture, chiseled a chasm between the music heard in the theater and the music heard on the radio. Soaring Broadway ballads, dewy with emotion, were instant anachronisms. A few female singers did essay the occasional show tune: Aretha Franklin did a rousing "Are You Sure" from "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and Ketty Lester turned "Once Upon a Time" into the last frail breath of remembered ardor. But these thrushes were crowded out of the Top 40 by jail-bait divas like Rosie Hamlin ("Angel Baby"), Little Peggy March...
...pried "from my cold, dead hands." (At first the star is courteous, but Moore's questions provoke him to terminate the interview, leaving Moore alone --in Heston's house.) In most respects, though, the film is crisper than Moore's earlier work--it's a handsomely assembled essay in words and pictures--and less given to finger pointing than head scratching...
...PHOTO ESSAY Dick Gephardt Hits the Trail...
...reiterate: these were not essay questions—they were objective, factual questions—and they were handed out in advance, and they comprised the students’ entire grade. Even among courses commonly considered “guts” during the regular term, I have yet to hear of anything even approaching the level of travesty engendered by such lax requirements...
...book as “extremely mixed-media. It involves architecture, it involves food, it involves sculpture, painting. It’s the intersection of science and art.” Nash is also developing what he describes as a “huge fucking 1,500-word essay which I hope to turn into a book...