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THOMAS C. RIZZO JR. Largo...
Investigators in Largo, Fla., last week disclosed the results of an autopsy of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who was the subject of a bitter struggle over whether to remove her feeding tube--pitting her husband Michael against her parents, right-to-lifers and members of Congress--before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush...
...Brattle begins its Film Noir 101 program with arguably the first and the best film noir. Legendary director John Huston (Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best...
...terms of the piece itself, the Largo was particularly well-played, with the winds, brass, and strings producing a wonderful coherence; the cellos carried off the honors, with strong full tones that exploited the piece’s melodic qualities. The ending movement, Allegro con spirito, displayed excellent spiccato work by all of the ensemble and furnished the piece with a truly robust finish...
...Thank you for publishing Reagan's letters. I hope everyone will recognize the intelligence and the wonderful morality of the man." LUCY M. CRONIN Key Largo...