Fittingly, "One Red Rose" recalls a national tragedy through specific impressions, filtered through 50 years of subsequent insight and experience.
Fittingly, given her legendary love life, she was also introduced by a former lover, the fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who recalled a career replete with such memorable films as "Lovers," "Jules and Jim" and "Diary of a Chambermaid," and who added a reminiscence of his own.
There was something in the wisps of incense lingering in the air from the censer swung not two hours prior that recalled the haunted atmosphere at the first poetry reading I attended, at 15, in a stuffy old library at The Lawrenceville School, fittingly enough by Rachel's mentor, James Merrill, an alumnus of the same.
An account of his funeral, written by H. M. Selden many years later, recalled: "His heavy body conveyed in a boat across the Cove and carried thence on a bier a distance of some three miles, to the cemetery adjoining the First Congregational Church in East Haddam for burial, by four strong men, fittingly chosen.
Her allies include Roger Tabor, a leading British naturalist; Jeffrey Masson, the outspoken author of "The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats" and "When Elephants Weep"; and, fittingly, Tippi Hedren, the actress best known for starring in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds". Which, as you will recall, was a film in which Hedren spent two hours dodging attacks by murderous birds.
The sound he has created for "It's Very Stimulating," a buoyant mix of samples from children's records, xylophone trills, snippets of in-studio horsing around and Bing Crosby singing "Blue Tail Fly," recalls his work on De La Soul's 1989 album "Three Feet High and Rising," and it bathes Mr. Barman's wacky songs in a fittingly garish Day-Glo light.
He recalls something President Kennedy said after the Bay of Pigs fiasco: "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan". Fittingly, although that quote is widely ascribed to JFK, he reportedly lifted the line from a 1951 movie, "The Desert Fox". The movie, in turn, swiped it from a 1942 diary entry by Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano.
This sort of nonreview review, written in a fittingly self-conscious style that kind of recalls David Foster Wallace is, I think, the best thing I've read yet about "The Pale King," and I've read everything I can find.
Our criminally underappreciated games industry produced titles like: Shadowrun, NBA All Star Challenge, Mech Warrior, Radical Rex, Super Smash TV, and (fittingly considering how often Channel Ten would repeat it) the game adaptation of Total Recall.
With, fittingly, Mudhoney.
IT WAS fittingly symbolic.
