She worked her script like a musician looking at a sheet of music, calculating which of many ways to go.

NEWYORKER: The Natural

Tennessee Waltz, her biggest hit, topped the charts in 1950-1951 and was the last song to sell a million copies of sheet music.

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There has traditionally been no easy way to turn the jumble of enterprise software and hardware into a coherent orchestra, because all of the sheet music is written in different languages.

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She looked with a kind of distaste at the sheet music, holding it with unwilling fingers, as though it were unclean and it was rather grubby, worn at the edges, torn at the crease where it folded.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Trying to look casual, he got his fingers inside it and, with a self-conscious flourish, took out some pages of sheet music.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones