Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband presses a parfait glass to her abdomen in hopes of hearing his baby. The wife is Debbie North, a commercial artist and the sole support of her husband Bruce, a painter of unbought paintings. The people are real, and so is the rest of the cinéma-vérité film that follows their practice sessions at a natural-birth clinic and their visits to in-laws (Mom still wishes Bruce had gone into dentistry). A listener can even hear the chatter of Debbie's teeth as she is driven to the hospital. Finally, with Bruce...
Four years later, Republicans accused Grover Cleveland of siring an illegitimate child, and anti-Cleveland mobs cried derisively: "Ma, ma, where's my pa?", to which Cleveland's Democrats appended: "Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!"* For all that, presidential candidates in the past were usually spared the ignominy of being heckled to their faces...
Boulez, who lives in Baden-Baden, knows better than most conductors how the music of his own time should sound, since he himself has composed some of the best of it (Eclat, Le Marteau sans Maítre). When he takes to the podium, he brings along insight, evangelism, an insider's care, and the ability to get what he wants from an orchestra. This is why he has become one of the most sought-after guest conductors in Europe and the U.S. It helps explain why, in the space of only a few years, his recordings of Schoenberg...
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...ma'am. I just don't know where General Motors is, that's all." But son, don't you know that what's good for General Motors is good for the country? Yes sir, I know that, but I don't know where the country...