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...head coach at Texas Tech, his home since being fired by Indiana. Knight, who is succeeded by his son Pat, told colleagues he was tired. But he was also following a tradition of writing his own script. Last year, when he broke the record for game wins, the song he chose to play over the loudspeaker was My Way. "When I think back on it," he said then, "I don't think my way was all that...
...impossible to not like Day, not to sympathize with him. Even when he chooses to be a tail gunner because “you’re the one they’re most likely to kill,” Day still reaches for every book, still infuses every song with all his soul. Half-despite himself, his will to live is indefatigable.And the book’s most beautiful passages, its most cutting scenes, are when Kennedy plumbs this reluctant desire for life, finding it inextricably tied to art, to stories and song, as in the scene where...
...young people who tore up their draft cards, resisted the war, and sought peace—the generation that inspired him to write “Alice’s Restaurant,” a film loosely based on Arlo Guthrie’s anti-war protest song of the same name. “Each generation has its own spirit,” Penn said. “The one that was the generation of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ was the group that rejected the draft. That was extraordinarily bold and forthcoming politically...
...dread. “I’m currently facing it with white-knuckle terror, and eventually the panic will fester into a boil that will goad me into action,” Rakoff says.To convey its tone, he cites a YouTube clip of his favorite depressing song. The video sets images from the Great Depression and the First World War against Bing Crosby’s rendition of “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” Though he finds the song “surprisingly applicable” to the looming economic recession, Rakoff...
...pick-and-roll. This is the secret behind the NBA's "Where Amazing Happens" ad campaign, which sets still frames of basketball stars to a slowly building piano piece called EVERYDAY by Carly Comando. If fans are fish and the NBA is a barrel, Everyday is the bullet. The song was originally composed as the sound track for a viral video in which photographer Noah Kalina cut together pictures of himself taken in an identical pose over several years. Removed from images, the 6-min. track (available at iTunes) is a George Winston knockoff?New Age piano music perfect...