Word: requiem
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...DIED. HUBERT SELBY JR., 75, former merchant marine who wrote novels thick with drugs, violence and human failings, including Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream; in Los Angeles. While working on a freighter at the age of 18, Selby contracted a nearly fatal case of tuberculosis, and during his convalescence he developed a taste for literature and addictions?later kicked?to alcohol and morphine. His 1964 novel Last Exit drew critical praise for its realistic portrayal of doomed prostitutes, dejected transvestites and predatory ex-cons, and was also scorned for its graphic depictions of rape, beatings...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus will perform their spring concert featuring German favorites by Brahms and Schoenberg. Phillip Lima, bass, and Andrea Matthews, soprano, will solo in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. $12 and $15 Regular, $8 and $6 Students. 3 p.m. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden...
HILLES CINEMA Requiem for a Heavyweight, Peter and the Wolf, April...
HILLES CINEMA Requiem for a Heavyweight, Peter and the Wolf, April...
...film begins with the end of the 1836 battle: a visual requiem for the dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...