Ed Roach Naples, Fla., Nov. 17, 2010 To the Editor: Thank-you notes are lovely, but they're even better when addressed to the right people.
There were three gleaming valveless trumpets, thrilling in proclamatory music, sweet and shining in quiet sustained notes; a lovely soft Baroque flute; and a giant circular valveless horn, with which the soloist struggled a bit in the bass soloist's "Quoniam tu solus sanctus," but who could blame her?
In his novel on the life of Shakespeare, Rush came close to pipping Mailer at the post with his inexplicably nautical rendering of an encounter between Anne Hathaway and an alarmingly callow young bard who notes the lovely female body "rag[ing] and founder[ing] in the rising foam as I clung like a mariner to her heaving haunches".
Note the lovely terra-cotta squares at the second floor of 233, with scallop shells, whirlpools, bull's-eyes and other charming details.
As a historical note, this lovely piece of property happens to be on the same street where, in 1969, Manson Family members brutally murdered Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
His last note was lovely and then wavered as he faded out, but again, he looked so natural you could almost assume he meant it.
Side note: My lovely mother-in-law Sarah Wagner, an expert on timeless etiquette and "Real Housewives" foibles, posed the following question: "What is your take on Alexis with her high-necked dresses and string of pearls?
After dining alone for the first time at an Italian restaurant and spotting a couple enjoying a romantic meal together, he decided to honor Carol's memory by paying for their bill and sending them a lovely note.
Likewise, a lower-key zinfandel — a wine without the bombast — would hit lovely notes.
