Word: mel
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...Beckett Festival, which ended last week, is fresh evidence of a bustling industry devoted to the Nobel-prizewinning author. He has inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know...
Play back the voice of Mel Allen, who died this year, his very name a river of l's rolling out over the radio on an eternal afternoon. "Hello, everybody. This is Mel Allen...
...voice, in the days when pop intersected with country. On her albums, swirling violins would blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight was a Tin Pan Alley tune that had been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part of a thrilling emotional biography, drawing out a note...
...DIED. MEL ALLEN, 83, sportscaster whose tenor-toned Alabama drawl became the voice of the New York Yankees; in Greenwich, Connecticut...
...four are currently being held in Chinese prisons or labor camps because they publicly expressed prodemocracy opinions and sought to reform the Chinese government, alleged Mel Yiasemide, an organizer of the event and a member of Boston's Amnesty International Chapter...