Have you ever thought of using more of his words? What would that mean? He was not like Abraham Lincoln. He was a very accessible speaker – even his greatest of conversations are very talkative and they are rooted in his kind of homegrown, tough roots. Possibly, for example, “Why should your life be all …
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Ann Hutchinson Guest, one of the world’s leading authorities on dance notation and a practice of recording important dances on paper, died on April 9 at her London home. She was 103 years old. Lynne Weber, executive director of the Dance Notation Bureau, which Ms. Hutchinson Guest and three other women founded in 1940 to …
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LOS ANGELES – Ann Sarnoff, CEO of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, three people briefed on the subject, said they will be leaving the company with an announcement this week. Ms Sarnoff, who declined to comment, He was chosen to lead Warner Bros. Despite her limited Hollywood experience in 2019, she became the first woman …
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“She got used to the songs of Sally Ann Howes, Lerner and Loewe,” Milton Esterow wrote in a review for The Times. “She has grace, beauty, and a lovely voice.” As “Brigadoon” will soon disappear, Mr. Esterow said, “Broadway must hurry and find a new show for Ms. Howes. Otherwise, some clever gentleman in Scotland …
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer | How to Listen Novelist Ann Patchett’s latest book, “These Precious Days” is a collection of articles. It is based on a long headline that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine about his close friendship with a woman who had moved to Nashville for cancer treatment just as the …
Actress Anne Dowd He stood straight at the helm, hands gripping the steering wheel, his eyes fixed on the green-grey-blue river that lay before him like a crumpled blanket. The Statue of Liberty was just ahead. “Everyone behind the wheel of a sailboat looks great” Jonathan Horvathsaid the captain. “But some people look more amazing …
*** As a child in Catholic school, nuns never got tired of telling us how lucky we were. Of course, we were lucky in obvious ways that should never be underestimated—lucky with our health, our food, our families, we were lucky to be able to go to school—but in the face of a real disaster, …
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