Posted for no reason at all, and valid only until I change my mind:
– BEST COMEBACK “Sir, you MAY wonder.”
– BEST MOVIE SCORE Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown
– BEST PAINTING I’VE SEEN THIS YEAR Arnold Friedman, Landscape
– BEST LOUIS ARMSTRONG RECORD I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (scroll down to listen)
– BEST P.G. WODEHOUSE NOVEL The Mating Season
– BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM Powers of Ten (thank you, dear OGIC, for introducing me to this miniature masterpiece)
– BEST SLOW MOVEMENT Beethoven, Cavatina from Quartet No. 13, Op. 130
– BEST PIECE OF WAR REPORTING Ernie Pyle, The Death of Captain Waskow
– BEST FIRST LINE “The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick.”
– BEST LAST LINE “He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.”