Word: heart
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Only his passing was uncharacteristic. It should have been something quick, furious, defiant. Instead, when he died of a heart attack last week at 82, it was lingering, pernicious, sad. He last performed live in the winter of 1995, but he was unsteady on his feet, and lyrics he'd known for years eluded him. His last original recorded tunes were the studio stunts of the two Duets albums, in which Sinatra revisited some of his classic songs in the company of spryer admirers, from Streisand to Bono...
...evening and rounded memory with a perfect dramatic closure. Too much to expect perhaps, but in a sense that was Sinatra's own fault. Too much, he had always shown us, was the least we could expect from him. Not as excess, mind, but as abundance. So much heart, so much sorrow, such delicacy and such braggadocio, all for the music he made indelible, with enough to spare so that it spilled over into his life and into all the public refractions...
...knew your hidden heart. Did anyone know his? He sang and made us all believe we did. And then, just when we had his assurance, he changed and kept us guessing. How could the guy who made an album as naked, turbulent and forsaken as Only the Lonely get into all that Rat Pack huggermugger, knocking back drinks with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and flattening intrusive photographers? How could the exuberance of Come Fly with Me, the joyful, rapturous carnality of I've Got You Under My Skin (the '56 version, with the brassy transcendence of Nelson Riddle...
...arbitrary designation of 16 or 18 as the age of consent, our society frequently permits exceptions to these rules. A marriage in which the bride is 13 or 14 is not unusual, and there is no talk of rape. This is appropriate. Judgments in affairs of the heart should be made on a case-by-case basis. RICHARD FEINBERG Boston...
DIED. RONALD RIDENHOUR, 52, Vietnam vet turned investigative journalist whose dogged accusations as an ex-G.I. led to the exposure of the massacre at My Lai; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Metairie, La. Shocked by comrades' talk of the March 16, 1968, killings, Ridenhour investigated and sent a long letter to several Congressmen and President Nixon when he returned to the U.S. His account that "something rather dark and bloody" had transpired seared the nation's conscience...