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...Originality aside, Star Wars, JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and dozens of other films simply wouldn't be the same without Williams' in the background, heightening the drama of every scene. Compare that to the occasional wisp of flute music reminiscent of "My Heart Will Go On" in Titanic, heralding the blast of the top-40 hit as the credits roll...
Originality aside, Star Wars, JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and dozens of other films simply wouldn't be the same without Williams' in the background, heightening the drama of every scene. Compare that to the occasional wisp of flute music reminiscent of "My Heart Will Go On" in Titanic, heralding the blast of the top-40 hit as the credits roll...
...stubborn wisp of a man lumbered through the two-day proceedings, berated by the judge and derided by the prosecution for courtroom gaffes and blunders. Kevorkian discovered, for example, that he couldn't call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing...
...astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...
Amos likes to make her voice heard. In person she's a wisp--a mere 5 ft. 3 in. with pale strawberry hair--but she is given to big technicolor pronouncements, especially on the subject of Christianity: "At five I really believed Jesus and Mary [Magdalene] were in love, and there was this whole thing going on," and "When you really think about Christianity, it is a religion without a penis...