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...Play a Simple Melody," or "Simple Melody/Musical Demon," 1914. This was Berlin's first contrapuntal tune: two melodies - one demure, one robust - that are sung consecutively, then one atop the other. (He did it again with "I Wonder Why/You?re Just in Love" for "Call Me Madam"). It was the biggest hit of his first Broadway score, "Watch Your Step," and spawned hit versions that reached #4 and #8. In 1950 the song did a Lazarus, or would have if he?d been a barbershop quartet. This time there were four hits, including Bing and Gary Crosby...
Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...
...within two weeks of the attacks, General Motors exhorted television viewers to "Keep America Rolling" by taking advantage of its 0% financing offer. Shameless hucksterism? Well, yes. But businesspeople and policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are hoping it works. Before the World Trade Center disaster, the oddly robust spending of Americans seemed to be all that was keeping the global economy out of recession. The fear now is that a collapse in U.S. consumer confidence will bring down America and everyone else...
It’s finally official: The National Bureau of Economic Research has declared that the United States’ economy has slipped into a recession. Unemployment is steadily on the rise, American business has been less than robust and the terrorist attack on Sept. 11 all but tipped the scales...
...Bush administration hawks have long called for more robust U.S. support for various Iraqi opposition groups in order to finish what they consider the unfinished business of the Gulf War. But doves have countered that going after Saddam a decade after his ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that...