Word: shafted
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...bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument of such grandeur...
...other course description includes the words, "aesthetic du cool of Quentin Tarantino." And no other course has Shaft and She's Gotta Have It on the required viewing list...
...heard dogs barking and a commotion outside. Martha's body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...
...that HBO could be broadcast nationwide. "What do cable guys know about the space business?" skeptics on the board asked Levin. To them, space meant NASA: engineers with buzz cuts, white short-sleeved shirts and clip-on ties. How did this guy with the disco moustache and the Shaft-era hairdo plan on paying off a satellite? "Somewhere in the Time archives there is probably a memo from [the chairman] saying, 'Who is this guy in the double-knit suit?'" Levin recalled last week. "But I knew I would win. It was the force of the idea...