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Living (Henry Greene novel) The Year of Living Dangerously (movie)

A Little Night Music (musical play) The Night of the Living Dead (movie)

Serenade to a Cuckoo (another Tull tune) The Sterile Cuckoo (Minnelli movie)

Because the Night (10,000 Maniacs) Night at the museum (Movie)

Night Moves (Bob Seeger song) A Night At The Opera (album by Queen)

Movies where at least one of the main characters is a medical doctor. 1. M.A.S.H

2. Dr. Alemán

a good book is one where the author put in exactly as much as was needed, no more and no less I would accept where the author put in exactly as much as was needed, no more and no less as a brilliant definition of poetry.

Oh, that's one I couldn't finish - Absolom! Absolom! by Faulkner. I didn't try very hard, though, as I really wasn't enjoying it at all. I was supposed to read Absalom, Absalom in graduate school. That particular seminar had us on a pace of a novel a week, not to mention all the secondary materials. It was not my only seminar that term, either. So it was one of those classes where something had to give. And by the point in...

exactly as much as was needed It depends on what kind of book it is. If there are long descriptions (of scenery, people, buildings, etc.), then pages and pages of text may simply be cut out in making the movie without losing anything at all. You don't need a five-page description of a mountain view when you can see it before you in the movie.