Dick composes "Broadway Baby," trying the initial notes of Stephen Sondheim's version before rejecting them.
His initial notes list the most incongruous objects: "Games, puzzles, TV circuitry, computer and transistor boards, optical instruments, piano keys, Lego, shoes, teeth, die, beads, bobbins, matches, chocolate moulds, rubber stamps, playing cards, gramophone records, film and audio tapes..."...
At first Lisa learns from a steward that the passenger has a British passport, and the initial notes of "Rule Britannia," sounded by the orchestra, suggest her temporary relief.
By comparing his initial notes of face wounds with the cast, Dr. Hayne testified, he found it probable that the boy had been suffocated by a large male hand.
Sometimes his source was a notebook that he kept on his walks, at other times his published books; and though the gap between his initial notes and a verse draft could be many months, once he began on the poem itself he usually completed it in a single day.
To quote directly from some of my initial notes while playing the game: "A soldier behind me just said, 'Why in Odin's name are we here?' I find myself asking the very same question.... Nice production values, but the controls are kind of clunky and disjointed...
The sniper's initial note in Virginia reportedly had complained that he tried to reach the police but was rebuffed a number of times on the hot line.
Better still, Bebeto's initial note and then an open letter to Lucas published in La Voz de Galicia wished him luck in making it eight to "help Depor win".
The following December, shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, Metesky sent a letter bearing the same block-style handwriting of the initial note to police headquarters.
This is not untypical; most months, an initial "note verbale" (third-person note) grants permission for almost all the requested locations, but this is then denied further down the line.
That initial note prompted a short reply from Murdoch, simplysaying: "What are you doing on email?" Half an hour before Brooks sent her email, the under-pressure Rupert Murdoch took his first step in abandoning the bid for Sky by announcing that he was withdrawing certain undertakings, triggering a referral to the competition authorities.
