Word: glorious
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...whose previous occupant was Michael Douglas and whose current owner is her father, Los Angeles pediatrician Paul Fleiss. She threw a smashing party there for none other than Mick Jagger. Jack Nicholson showed up, and so did Prince and a couple of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Life was a glorious movie...
When public TV was launched, there were only the three networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with...
...possible worlds, the space program would not be getting crushed between the defense budget, galumphing entitlements and a right-wing rebellion against government spending for anything but keeping undesirables out of the neighborhood. But this is not the best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough. Let the Russians...
...Sergeant Pepper debut. Why he did this has remained a subject of continued speculation and not a little mythmaking. But the centerpiece of this new, must-have, five- CD "anniversary collection" of classics and unreleased material is a 30- minute selection from the Smile sessions: unfinished, incomplete and glorious. The music is mystic, mad, wild and gentle, quite unlike anything anyone, including Wilson, had ever tried in pop before. The lyrics were as fleeting as a waking dream; the musical tracks were layered as if Wilson were a kid in his room stacking 45-r.p.m. records...
...corporation, though not an independent legal entity, is staffed by a few full-time employees in places like the Yard's Wadsworth House, the Class Report Office on Winthrop Street and Radcliffe's Fay House. These are people who work long hours year-round for the good of one glorious week in early June...