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...think about the plans I'm making now...for retirement and IRA, paying my home loan off in installments over the next few years...
...year-old victories over Catholics, have taken on an ugly cast in the last two days, leading to more than 100 car burnings and widespread streetfighting. Some Catholic residents have fled their homes to avoid harm. While last year's marching season brought some violence as well, the IRA's shattering of a 17-month cease-fire last February has created an exceptionally stressful atmosphere, reports TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. Police have tried to keep the marchers in hand by blocking access to Catholic neighborhoods, but they have been unable to prevent scuffles in surrounding areas. "This is a tribal...
Gangly Gerald Conlon is a young Northern Irishman going through all the normal foibles of adolescence--stealing scrap metal, starting riots, having his kneecaps threatened by the IRA--until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...
...like I feel," Ella Fitzgerald would say. By that casual standard, it was a wonderful life. She sang some of the best music ever written in America, and, feeling it, she sang it wonderfully. For many, indeed, she sang it definitively. "I never knew how good our songs were," Ira Gershwin once remarked, "until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." By the time she died at home in Beverly Hills last week at 78, she had spread the treasure of her voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There was something...
Together--and often working with the brilliant arranging skills of Nelson Riddle--Fitzgerald and Granz then went on to songbooks for the likes of Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, the great composers of the great era of American popular music. Those songbooks became the foundation of a legacy, the single source for a musical standard that Fitzgerald, as much as anyone, helped make timeless. "Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz,'" she recalled. "I thought that was so cute. As long as they...