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DIED. JERRY GOLDSMITH, 75, prolific composer of movie scores and television theme music; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. In a career that spanned a half-century, his music adorned everything from film epics like Patton and The Sand Pebbles to TV classics like Gunsmoke and The Twilight Zone. He could be fast, writing the haunting score for Chinatown in just 10 days, or experimental, using mixing bowls for the score of Planet of the Apes. His creepy music for The Omen won a 1976 Oscar...
Choice anecdote: The event organizers piled up mountains of sugary sweets for the guests to take home as they depart the hotel. (I suppose this goes along with the whole “kids” theme.) I’m taking in the sight of this big rock candy mountain (as it were) when some young folk from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a children’s choir that performed earlier at the event, run over to sample a few Fruit Roll...
Franken might as well be referring to the American media. The theme of the event appears to be “Why are journalists such idiots?” Arianna Huffington, she of the exotically ambiguous accent, suggests that American reporters need a “spine transplant...
From the first words of his 10 p.m. keynote speech—a gruff “Reporting for duty!”—Kerry emphasized what has been a defining theme of the convention and his campaign thus far. Alluding repeatedly to his now-familiar personal narrative that included service on a boat in the Mekong River during the Vietnam War—and his subsequent opposition to the unjust war that it contributed to—Kerry portrayed himself as a principled war hero wary of the dangers of armed conflict...
...moon-shot program of John F. Kennedy ’40, also a former Crimson editor, and microchip technology, Kerry said he would lift current administrative restrictions on embryonic stem cell research—and, in perhaps his deftest segue, tied this into the convention’s theme of an optimistic party on the brink...