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FALL FROM GRACE...
...prospect of recovery, her parents asked her two doctors to take her off the respirator and let her "pass into the hands of the Lord"; the doctors refused. With the support of their parish priest, the parents went to court to ask permission for Karen to die "with grace and dignity." No U.S. court had ever granted such a right, and the controversy attracted international attention...
...peak. Tight Connection to My Heart is a playful bit of lovelorn apocrypha, a mood, once established, that turns sinister toward the end of the record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like one of those midnight Poe love poems, filled with grace notes that sound like cries for help ("I live in another world where life and death are memorized./ Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes"), and images of fleeting beauty that turn into signs of prophecy ("Hunger pays a heavy price...
...record, this is the 14th James Bond film and the seventh to star Roger | Moore. The opening thrill sequence is once again a ski chase. The most exotic (or should one say grotesque?) of his several love interests (or should one say sex objects?) is the black pantheresque model, Grace Jones. The villain, joylessly played by Christopher Walken, this time schemes improbably to blast open the San Andreas Fault, wiping out Silicon Valley so that he can corner the microchip market. If the picture did not carry the credits of Writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson and Director John...
...existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even of one's own manufacture, yet the experience was also like some ancient dream, the survivors hoping feebly that from now on the gods will be kind. So has the world advanced to its current state of grace...