Word: abbeys
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...pious folk-rock in the Roman Catholic churches that gave it birth, but the ethereal, sinuous style of monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well...
...status quo. The American health system is the best in the world. It has saved the life of people I know, more and more of them as I grow older. I'm not going to dilute it to please some power-tripping bureaucrat who got his law degree when Abbey Road was released...
...once visited on military duty when he was my age. He nodded at just about everything I showed him, remembering old back cabs, the alter of St. Paul's, the Tower Bridge. He stopped, though, over a picture of a ceiling--the arches of the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey. He tapped it and said quietly, "They knew how to do it then, didn't they...
...obscurity." Reared in rural Calvin Center, Michigan, where she performed in storefront churches, she ventured to Los Angeles and got her first break -- and first name change, to Gaby Lee -- warbling love songs at a faux-Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. She was later dubbed Abbey Lincoln, after the 16th President, by a manager who quipped, "Old Abe didn't really free the slaves, but maybe...
...Abbey Lincoln's jazzy message of hope...