For an encore Mr. Kahane offered a bare-bones account of "Goodnight to the Boarding House," from "February House": a voice, a banjo, no microphones.
Are we just supposed to chalk up the gradual goodnighting of device communality as another notch in 'the price of progress'?
She did not let the guy kiss her goodnight because of how "unworthy" she felt.
Think of "So Long, Farewell," the treacly goodnight greeting of the Von Trapp children in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Sound of Music".
The risk paid off, and in 2007 SAS reported its 31st consecutive year of positive growth, with $2.15 billion in revenue making Goodnight one of the richest people in America.
He gathered together a group of children to discuss a short bedtime classic: Goodnight Moon of course.
George Burns "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" The sweetest goodnight line of all time!
After a certain amount of hair detangling, into-your-pajamas-now cajoling, recitations of "Goodnight Moon" and singing of shopworn lullabies, the parent is done.
The new version, where the baby no longer gets dropped and Punch does not beat his wife, has been penned by John Phelps and Gary Lawson, whose credits include episodes of Goodnight Sweetheart and Birds Of A Feather.
Yet before you set aside that copy of "Goodnight Moon" in favor of reading to your progeny from Merriam-Webster in the evening, consider that it is not simply the number of words but also how they are used that is important.
Reading from the other shortlisted books in a deliberately dull voice, Stanton ended his pitch by informing children that "some of these books are quite dangerous; in between the pages of Goodnight Mister Tom there are lots of rusty nails, and the pages of Stig of the Dump are poisonous".
