Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with and attempts to broaden the most familiar book in the musical theater, but then realizes it so sloppily that it's hard to remember that it isn't a high school stage. The freshness of the musical comes back at times when this peculiarly doctored version tries to remind its audience just why the play excited audiences who didn't know that musical performers weren't exclusively nocturnal creatures in evening clothes and taps. The conceivers of this Oklahoma! understand just how remarkable it was that a musical addressed itself to the heartland of a growing America, to sunlight...
Selling the Farm. Still, why sell to an Australian instead of seeking other American prospects? Some Schiff associates speculate that Murdoch's publishing success and personal vigor remind her of the late Lord Beaverbrook, her fond mentor. But unlike Beaverbrook, who used his newspapers to influence British politics, Murdoch is out to make merry and money. The son of a prominent Australian journalist, Sir Keith Murdoch, Oxford-educated Rupert inherited a lackluster Adelaide daily in 1952 and parlayed it into an empire on three continents that today includes 87 newspapers, eleven magazines, seven broadcast stations, and an airline service...
...have nothing else besides that concrete keepsake and a remarkable earnest portrait in the family album to remind us of Carl Stanley Flanders' Yale football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts...
...Senator said he has yet to remind his nephew that in 1958, when he ran the Senate campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy '40, they "did a little better...
...Poem Painter" begins typically, with an echo and a shimmer of light musical phrases that remind you a bit of temple bells shivering in the wind. Then the percussion enters, muted yet enriching the sound, and finally the melody--simple and repetitive but constantly branching off in unexpected and spontaneous harmonies. You trace the saxophone's part much as you are drawn by a strand of gold in a piece of cloth. It glows and enriches the fabric and the fabric, (or musical backing) in turn, keeps the shimmer from ever becoming brassy...