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...that Gene’s passion for jazz rules and ultimately ruins his personal life. Infused with wry humor, the Tony-award winning show demonstrates that the life of a professional artist is never simple: music is at once Gene’s sole source of spiritual manna and his proverbial Achilles’ heel. As they gather in a draughty and cramped rehearsal room on a freezing Wednesday evening, the link between Side Man’s cast of Harvard theatrical stalwarts and the devotion to artistic practice presented in the play is obvious...
Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis): "A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.... A columnist can't do without us - except our good and great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell...
...academic aims are compromised because cashiers at the Greenhouse make less than $10.83 per hour. Please. I suppose, then, that once Harvard’s least skilled and (forgive my frankness) most replaceable workers get raises, we’ll see Nobel Prizes and research grants rain down like manna from heaven...
...manna from heaven: By 8 a.m. every major news organization in the country had pounced on the story, while anchors at the cable news networks, drained after weeks of virtually nonexistent news, were practically drooling at the idea of a dramatic break in a dramatic story. All day long, the speculation raged and the three-dimensional graphics spun around our television screens: What would the President do? Would he deny funding altogether? Would he agree to funding with strict limitations...
...didn't need friends, family, financing--he almost went without food. He was self-sufficient, gaining sustenance and strength from the work, as if by his hands he was creating his own manna. And if the idea could nourish him, he reasoned, then how many others could feed on it as well...