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Leonard Cohen on Q TV (CBC exclusive)​


To celebrate Q's 2nd anniversary — poet, novelist, songwriter, legend...a special exclusive feature interview with Leonard Cohen... recorded at his home in Montreal. (42 min.)
 

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15 Clint Eastwood Facts to Blow Your Mind​

"It's been more than sixty years since Clint Eastwood first appeared on television screens as the young, tough and sometimes, impetuous Rowdy Yates and to many of us, the handsome actor will forever embody the irreverent and rebellious spirit of the 60s and be the Man With No Name".
 

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Year” (1910)
"If there is a New Year's Eve poem worth putting to memory, it is Ella Wheeler Wilcox's "The Year." This short and rhythmical poem sums up everything we experience with the passing of each year and it rolls off the tongue when recited."

What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of the year.

"If you get the opportunity, read Wilcox's “New Year: A Dialogue.” Written in 1909, it is a fantastic dialogue between 'Mortal' and 'The New Year' in which the latter knocks on the door with offers of good cheer, hope, success, health, and love."

"The reluctant and downcast mortal is finally lured in. It is a brilliant commentary on how the new year often revives us even though it is just another day on the calendar."

I love Ella Wheeler Wilcox, just as much as Emily Dickinson. She was basically considered more of a popular poet than literary one, so they say, but I don't. Her genius rivals Emily's, at least to me.

Are you a "Lifter" or a "Leaner".

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/357688-two-kinds-of-people-there-are-two-kinds-of-people
 

Back around the bend in Dallas TX.....​

Did Robert MacNeil ask Oswald if there was a phone he could use at the SBD building?
Journalist Robert MacNeil on John F. Kennedy's assassination

Jim Lehrer hears SS agent being told to remove the bubble top from the Limo.
News Anchor Jim Lehrer on John F. Kennedy's assassination
 
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(01/25/03) "We are at Garrett PA. on a sunny, and bitter cold 11 degree day, as we watch eastbound Q368 working up hill, with CSX SD40-2 #8249 leading. Westbound CSX Q137, with #725 leading a GE AC6000, meets right in front of us. We watch helper set, B252, shoving on the rear. By the time they get to Keystone, they will be into the heart of the grade, and working their guts out. This is the west slope of Sand Patch Grade on the ex-B&O Keystone sub".

"The second clip is of Q368 dropping down the east slope of Sand Patch in dynamic braking, around Mance curve. With the leaves off the trees, and snow cover, you can really see the complete horseshoe curve of Mance".
 
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Frank Sinatra presenting an honorary Oscar® to Cary Grant ("To Catch a Thief," "North by Northwest," "An Affair to Remember") for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues - 42nd Annual Academys® in 1970.
 
Movie legend Charlton Heston gives late ABC presenter Peter Jennings his last interview. His wife Lydia is by his side. Heston, who was also the star of TV's "The Colbys," passed away in April 2008.
 

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