Word: flame
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...that recalls Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. She appeals to the Sinatra set as much as the jazz buffs, to the over-40s as much as their rock-bopping offspring. Her secret is that emotionally, she banks her fires. She knows that a low flame burns longer and more intriguingly than a high blaze. Thanks to her training, her voice retains a classical elegance, avoiding the frenzied bleating that characterizes so much pop singing today...
...signature song to use in his movie about a disk jockey, Play Misty for Me. He hit upon The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Eventually, many of the disk jockeys who had seen the movie began playing the record on their shows. Moral: even a low flame finally brings things to a boil...
...Mary Cassatt's Impressionis paintings, I mooned over Emily Dickinson's poems, absurdly imitated Isadora Duncan's dances, and I rea a little Gertrude Stein, mostly impressed that any woman could be quite so charismatic and commanding. I respected their sensitivity without really wondering how they kept their flame going during the crises of everyday life...
...mutual admiration ever since the days when Nixon, a freshman Congressman from California, had begun his pursuit of Alger Hiss and "the Communist conspiracy." Hoover, said Nixon, "was one of the giants, a man who helped keep steel in America's backbone and the flame of freedom in America's soul...
knowing of your great love yet unable to look at the clear flame...