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...newspaper columnist. In the words of a 1933 ad slogan, WINCHELL HE SEES ALL HE KNOWS ALL. With its rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense of hubris at the Stork Club animates Michael Herr's artful 1990 rendition of the columnist...
...restores one of the early casualties, the chorus Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun', a plaintive lament that acts as a kind of fate motive throughout the show (it is heard in the orchestra, for example, when the ne'er-do-well gambler Gaylord Ravenal first catches sight of the sweet, ingenuous Magnolia). Another addition is the charmingly coy duet, I Have the Room Above Her, first heard in the 1936 film version and much the best of Kern's second thoughts...
...most poignant song, Gulf Coast Highway, written with pianist James Hooker and guitarist Danny Flowers, has this refrain: "And when he dies he says he'll catch/ Some blackbird's wing/ Then he will fly away to Heaven/ Come some sweet blue-bonnet spring...
...should really avoid organizations with inscrutable mottoes. For instance, an alleged literary magazine on campus uses the Latin phrase "Dulce Est Periculum," which means "Danger Is Sweet." Now, if we hadn't told you that, you might have unexpectedly found yourself experiencing the sweetness of jumping off the Weeks Bridge during your comp. Beware of slogans in tongues...
...glass, pulled down the rebound around three Wildcats. And lookit here!! James White, open downcourt for a three!!! JW came out of Kentucky, and now he says, 'Hey, I can play with youuuu!!! I can play with yoooooouuuuuuu!!!!!" Crimson sky at night, Harvard's delight bbbbaaaaaabbbbbyyyyy!!!!!!! Hello, sweet sixteeeeeeennnnn...