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...Crimson counterpart had a far greater impact, which was made apparent in the first quarter, when the junior left the game on the third series. Holding his side in pain, Dawson left the field for a span as the Crimson offense sputtered and the Brown defense breathed a sigh of relief...
...August 14 that left 121 dead near Athens. Two days later a double engine failure above Venezuela resulted in 160 deaths; nine days later an emergency landing in Peru killed 40, making August the deadliest month for airplane crashes since May 2002. Some of the superstitious breathed a sigh of relief at that point, saying plane crashes come in threes—but they didn’t have much time before crash number four started the cycle again. September 5 brought the Indonesia crash that killed at least 149, leaving even the most hardened and sober among us wondering...
...book comes out at a time when the career of the man who was once the world's most famous literary novelist is in deep crisis. The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) was the last in a string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while...
...essentially People Will Talk is a melancholy affair, filled with stories of early success and cumulative sorrows. Hardly a witness to the old days can speak without suppressing a sigh. Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been auctioned off; stars dim as predictably as sunrise; archetype runs downhill to caricature: Clark Gable is copied by Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps...
...either Violetta or Mimi. Her affair with Ruggero is a self-deluding attempt to recapture a lost moment from her youth, and in the last act, she realizes she has been acting out a fantasy, not conducting a love affair. The opera comes to a close with her wistful sigh floating high above the orchestra. Despite its frivolous trappings, La Rondine has a core of cynicism and bears about as much relation to Lehar as Ravel's fierce La Valse does to the waltzes of Johann Strauss...