Rafferty all but disappeared by the mid 1980s, although he did surface to co-produce the Proclaimers hit, Letter From America.

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"American Visions, " Mr. Hughes' history of art in North America from the 16th Century, was "a love letter to America, " he said.

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But there is a letter that went to the Chief of Staff today from a conservative group, Concerned Women for America, saying that the President should direct this super PAC, on the Democratic side, that took a million-dollar check from Bill Maher, who has had some pretty coarse things to say about conservative women.

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There is a touching letter from Poulenc to his friend and fellow-composer, Darius Milhaud, who had spent the 1940s in America, written soon after the liberation of Paris.

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