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...Weld said the measure was a politically conservative move in tune with his philosophy of keeping the government from interfering in the private lives of citizens...
Finneran acknowledged that some critics have accused Democrats of dancing to Weld's tune on budgetary issues, but he said the reason is simple--the state faced, and still faces, a fiscal crisis...
Loesser the Hollywood lyricist was Mr. Do-It-All. He wrote torchy stuff for gangster dramas and sarong songs for Dorothy Lamour. When collaborating, Loesser usually devised the lyric first, along with a "dummy tune" to suggest tempo and rhythm. Jimmy McHugh could compose a long, languid melodic line for Let's Get Lost because Loesser had compressed the intensity of new passion into the narrowest meter: "Let's defrost/ In a romantic mist./ Let's get crossed/ Off everybody's list...
World War II made Loesser a complete songwriter. Eager to contribute an anthem to the infantry, he wrote Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, and this time the dummy tune became the published song -- and a big hit. When he returned to movies, writing pile-driving boogie-woogie (Rumble Rumble Rumble) and patter songs (Can't Stop Talking) for hyperactive Betty Hutton, he had the credit he wanted: songs by Frank Loesser...
...demise of the initials U.S.S.R. will mean that one classic Beatles tune will become archaic. But initials are tricky things. The Soviets (or ex- Soviets, as the case may be) should be careful not to name their country the Basically United Sovereign Territories...