Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia Story, in case anybody missed the film, is about romantic entanglements. Specifically those of dim-witted Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Sarah Halper) and the two men who want her attention: George Kittredge (John Frost), Tracy's ex-husband and, by the end, everybody's hero...
...board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more senseless Manhattan murder takes an abrupt turn when the killer is himself killed in prison after bragging that he was paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company's board chairman, is also friends with N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Bautista, who promises to "keep the lid on" until the case is solved. The pair met in Haughton Murphy's first novel...
...Robert Frost wrote Fire and Ice in 1923, some four decades before astrophysicists were able to fathom how the sun -- and thus the earth -- would die. Nonetheless, he was basically correct: first fire, then ice. The fire will not be an explosion like the one now brightening the Large Magellanic Cloud; the sun is thought to have only about a tenth of the mass necessary to become a Type II supernova and has no stellar companion to contribute the mass necessary to turn it into a Type I blast. But that will be of little comfort to whatever creatures exist...
...FOOTNOTE: *Reprinted from The Poetry of Robert Frost by permission of Henry Holt...
...Chip Kinman. The dialectic opposition between the brothers' individual songwriting and singing styles makes Rank and File unique, if bizarre. Tony Kinman is the more philosophical, introspective songwriter, while Chip has a "let's party" attitude. Tony writes about South Africa. Chip writes about Hollywood. Tony quotes Robert Frost Chip sings, "Oh! That girl, na na na na na na." You get the idea...