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  • Holly, too, seemed inhabited by melody, some bouncy _bon voyage_ oompahpah.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • Holly, too, seemed inhabited by melody, some bouncy bon voyage oompahpah.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • Fly Me Away - Twee meets oompahpah with a little coconut percussion thrown in for fun.

    Sun Bloggers 2009

  • Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.

    The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide David Phelps 2010

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