The wearying ascents and descents, one damn note after another, lend Creed's exhibition an unexpected air of woeful, after-the-party lassitude.
As Christina tells Paulina not to change every single god damn note, we notice that our favorite pianist appears to be taking a snooze.
An entertainment journalist at the Los Angeles Times and a longtime fan of the show (she has, she writes, a "bach discush" cohort), Kaufman has procured damning production notes, revealing the show's behind-the-scenes manipulation of participants, beginning with the ground rules established at the Agoura Hills, California, mansion where "The Bachelor" is filmed.
Mr Jefferson was recorded complaining about "all these damn notes we're writing to each other...as if the FBI is watching".
I said, "No one will be able to quiz you on those damn notes at the end of this journey, because in heaven, they play the harp, not the piano, okay?" He smiled, again.
Even the S.E.C.'s own later post-mortem was damning, but while Ms. Henriques notes the agency's failures, she partly excuses them and chides Mr. Markopolos for alienating S.E.C. staff members over their ignorance of derivatives.
But I'll be damned if convertible notes aren't getting larger and larger.
If Mr. Katsaris's Chopin polonaise was burly and clangorous, there was something compelling about it, if only because he had an extreme concept that he carried through, notes be damned.
There are those who, perhaps after listening to a popular mashup of the two songs, maintain that they seem similar, note sequences be damned.
I offer evidence of decadence not to damn him but merely to note that, living in an atmosphere of perpetual temptation, he has been vulnerable to it.
Granted, the well-dressed men of Savak, the shah's secret police, were watching, and could damn you with a dossier note; and watching them from backstreet mosques and the alleys of the bazaars were the followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was making tapes and biding his time in a Paris suburb.
