Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year. Among the improvements: an enlarged lobby, a cream-and-gold repainting of the main hall, new seats and elevators, and a modern air-conditioning system. The reopening of the hall last week was celebrated with a gala concert that featured performances by Stern, Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne, Frank Sinatra and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The real star of the evening, however, was the legendary Carnegie sound itself. The critical consensus: richer and more crystal clear than ever...
...first comic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Spin-offs have been ubiquitous: more than 30 books, an NBC-TV special, a rock album and a Broadway musical, all written by Trudeau. His jabs have provoked outrage from targets as varied as Frank Sinatra and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Yet with just a handful of exceptions over the years -- mostly college speeches and prepared statements for charities -- Trudeau has steadfastly refused to engage in public give-and-take, to comment outside the strip on politics or, for that matter, to give interviews...
...UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK SINATRA, Kelley...
...UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK SINATRA, Kelley...
What His Way acknowledges but cannot really convey is the gift that made Sinatra famous and kept him that way: the meticulous phrasing that changed the intonation of popular music, the velvety, plaintive baritone that was the most distinctive male singing voice between Bing Crosby's and Elvis Presley's. Sinatra's character is a thumb in the public eye, but his songs continue to work a lonely magic. And not so lonely. Kelley notes that Frank, like everyone else, used Sinatra LPs as fail-safe aids to seduction...