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...burly $291.7 million at the domestic box office, plus $453.1 million abroad, briefly becoming Walt Disney Co.'s all-time top-grossing live-action film. The first sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, has just arrived, with blockbuster expectations. And the next chapter, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has already reserved the first May weekend of 2010 to open in movie theaters around the world...
...recently been at odds with the S.P.D.'s coalition partners, the Free Democrats. He favors a little more inflation rather than more unemployment, while the Free Democrats want tighter measures to control inflation even if that means a little more unemployment. Despite his reputation as a political toe-treader, Schmidt has long been rated in public opinion polls as the most popular Social Democrat in Brandt's Cabinet...
...have been dead years ago"), Ruggles wrote out atonal works with crayon on brown wrapping paper. Though he was a notoriously slow worker and a painstaking perfectionist-only eight pieces that require a total of 90 minutes to perform survive him-his sober tone poem Sun Treader is considered a modern masterwork...
...mild heart attack and had to give up most of the 1969-70 season; Thomas conducted 34 of the Boston Symphony's concerts and was on the podium at its spring recording sessions. The first results, Ives' Three Places in New England and Ruggles' Sun-Treader, soon to be released on a DGG LP, is 20th century music making at its best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky's Huxley Variations...
...captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable longevity is always the same: He thrives on dirty stories. "If it hadn't been for all those laughs, I'da been dead years...