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...last night of sequestration--after the verdict had been reached--was spent in high spirits in the spectacular $1,200-a-night Presidential Suite on the 17th floor of the Hotel Inter-Continental. The jurors laughed, schmoozed and sang together as a pianist performed jazzy sing-along tunes on the suite's baby grand. Said hotel general manager Lewis Fader, who was at the party: "They were like a fraternity. They seemed so close to each other. There was a lot of hugging and kissing." A juror went back and forth drinking beer, wine, beer, wine, said one hotel staffer...
...like Peter Gomes, succeed where so many others have failed?" Adams asked, in a nod to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who is celebrating his 25th anniversary as minister of Memorial Church this weekend. "How in our existential ambiguity can we sing the Lord's song today...
Some children grab for the treat the minute he's out the door. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait. They cover their eyes; they put their heads down; they sing to themselves; they try to play games or even fall asleep. When the researcher returns, he gives these children their hard-earned marshmallows. And then, science waits for them to grow...
...sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
...only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would say, 'I never realized how sick you really are' and leave...