Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Vernon Duke, 69, Russian-born songwriter who scored many Broadway and London musical hits (Cabin in the Sky, Two Little Girls in Blue) with such well-remembered favorites as April in Paris, Autumn in New York and Taking a Chance on Love; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
When the flooded area was visited last night, the stench was overpowering. One student described it as "putrid--it smells like mildew." The floors were warped, the plaster was spattered, but the lung-clogging stench prevented a detailed examination of the damaged suites...
...American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...Pinkerton detective, and then a soldier in World War I, Hammett started writing in hospitals, while recovering from lung ailments that plagued him to the very end. A quick success. Hammett joined the "Hollywood set" of the thirties, and later became actively involved in left wing politics...
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients. Balancing taste and excruciating intimacy, the camera team now details the last days and thoughts of Albro Pearsall, 52, a Manhattan gold smelter dying of lung cancer...