It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd — in plain fact — dirty lyrics, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

He flooded me with books, flowers, delicacies. He kept telling me what fine acting I still had ahead of me, discussing plans for me to direct one of his future films.

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Page 104 - rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilk reiteration, and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. Appears in 45 books from 1967-2006

Page 202 - I've Got the World on a String," "I've Got You Under My Skin... Appears in 7 books from 1962-2008

Page 66 Baron. The Duchesse is to forget her weakness for hot rooms. She is to develop a taste for sea air and your society." "Is she," Peter asked, anxiously, "old or young?" Sogrange showed a disposition to fence with the question. "Not old," he answered; "certainly not old. Fifteen years ago she was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. Appears in 12 books from 1843-2008

Page 2 About the only thing they had in common was that they were all more or less flat and laid out in the direction the group wanted to go. Appears in 12 books from 1965-2005

Page 6 I knew up to that time were tough kids on street corners, gang fights, and parents who were always busy trying to make money. Appears in 5 books from 1963-2004

Page 183 - ... Godfather Mario Puzo used some of the elements in the singer he called Johnny Fontane; other novels have used Sinatra-like figures in various ways; yet no fictional account has truly defined the man in all of his complexity. We only know that the mob runs through his story like an underground river. He is the most investigated American performer since John Wilkes Booth, and although he has never been indicted or convicted of any mob-connected crime, the connection is part of the legend. Appears in 4 books from 1996-2004

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