Gosh, your brother is brave. I hope he and his friends will be OK.
We're in northern NH, but far enough inland that I suspect all we'll get is rain...and maybe some wind. I have a lot of friends in the NYC area from having lived there for so long. Those who live on Long Island are pretty worried right now. From what I've read online, the plan by city officials seems to be to totally shut down Manhattan and the other boroughs.
Yeah, I used to live in NYC too, and for five years in Eastern Long Island. I worked at a scout camp on Long Island, back when my daughter was a toddler; -- she was there with me -- when we had to evacuate to a high school for a hurricane. There was some flooding, a few trees went down and a lot of branches, so there was a lot of clearing up to do, but nothing amounting to "disaster". Best of all no one was hurt. I sure was worried, though!
Well, I'm pretty old, you know. I lived in Brooklyn as a little girl for a year and a half, in 1962-63. After that our family moved to the Virginia suburbs of D.C. I lived in Manhattan (upper West side) as a young adult from 1975-85, then Philadelphia, NYC's mid-west side in 1987-88, back to Philadelphia, then to Westhampton Beach, LI 1991-96. After 1996, we lived three years in San Francisco. Then we moved to Duluth.
It's a beautiful painting, isn't it? I think the artist did many excellent seascapes, especially stormy ones. So far I think everyone's fine. It's not in the Washington D.C. area yet, but since the hurricane was downgraded to category 1, I should think they'll be ok, if inconvenienced. :)
I hope you and your family and everyone else will stay safe, dear. We are glued to the weather channel here - my thoughts and prayers are with the people from the East Coast.
None of these. See the other comment I just answered. The TV production I'm talking about was based on the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. Here's the entry at IMDB for Woman in Black:
Holy cow! Look what that movie is going for now at amazon. *gulp* I guess I'll just have to wait for Dan's remake.
Tell ya what. When I've watched it I could loan it to you, ey? DVD's are cheap to send media mail.
I didn't care for Renata Scotto. She had a vibrato like a tommy gun and I found it unpleasant. My husband does a hilarious imitation of her.Ha ha! Well, obviously not a singer to your taste. But by the time I saw her she no longer had a tommy gun vibrato (which suggests to me a very fast pulse). In fact, people used to say, "You could drive a truck through her wobble it's so wide." I saw her in Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met and she did not sound good when she pushed, which was anything high or dramatic - there was that wide wobble, unpleasant in itself but also making her go flat. But I have a recording of her singing the two famous arias from that opera when she was in her prime and they are fantastic. I think she must have had a short-lived instrument. Maybe that was true for Leontine Price, too. She wasn'
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We're in northern NH, but far enough inland that I suspect all we'll get is rain...and maybe some wind. I have a lot of friends in the NYC area from having lived there for so long. Those who live on Long Island are pretty worried right now. From what I've read online, the plan by city officials seems to be to totally shut down Manhattan and the other boroughs.
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P.S. Your raining icon is beautiful!
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P.S. Love your icon.
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Love,
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1. Damen i svart (1958)
aka "The Lady in Black" - International (English title) (informal literal title)
2. The Lady in Black (1928)
aka "Die Dame in Schwarz" - Germany (original title)
3. The Lady in Black (1951)
aka "Die Dame in Schwarz" - West Germany (original title)
4. The Lady in Black (1913)
5. The Lady in Black (1921)
6. The Lady in Black (1935)
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/
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Available from these sellers:
3 new from $199.99 6 used from $90.96 1 collectible from $180.00
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Tell ya what. When I've watched it I could loan it to you, ey? DVD's are cheap to send media mail.
I didn't care for Renata Scotto. She had a vibrato like a tommy gun and I found it unpleasant. My husband does a hilarious imitation of her.Ha ha! Well, obviously not a singer to your taste. But by the time I saw her she no longer had a tommy gun vibrato (which suggests to me a very fast pulse). In fact, people used to say, "You could drive a truck through her wobble it's so wide." I saw her in Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met and she did not sound good when she pushed, which was anything high or dramatic - there was that wide wobble, unpleasant in itself but also making her go flat. But I have a recording of her singing the two famous arias from that opera when she was in her prime and they are fantastic. I think she must have had a short-lived instrument. Maybe that was true for Leontine Price, too. She wasn' ( ... )
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