Word: anthem
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...Flying Circus ("Eric the Half-a-Bee," "The Lumberjack Song," "Dennis Moore") and their films. Idle's blithely idiotic ditty, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," helped make Life of Brian that rare Crucifixion movie you could hum your way out of. And the Jones-Palin anthem from The Meaning of Life ("Every sperm is sacred / Every sperm is great / If a sperm is wasted / God gets quite irate") could be choraled today by half the U.S. Senate. These musical interludes set the Monty-men firmly in the tradition of the English variety show, as well as making...
...about the capacity of a nation to implement those policies and to pay for them. Sovereignty is not just about local personnel occupying key positions, it's ensuring they are effective in those positions. Sovereignty is not just about being an independent country, having a flag and a national anthem. It's about winning the respect and the cooperation of other countries." On all these benchmarks, the little big men of Honiara fall short. Countries rarely get a second chance. A third, never...
...Baron Cohen throws himself recklessly into all manner of potentially dangerous situations. The crowd at the rodeo starts booing Borat when he sings the "Kazakhstan national anthem" to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner." A group of young louts in an RV get Borat almost as drunk as they spout their beery misogyny. And there's an eerie scene in a revival tent where he accepts Christ as his Savoir and babbles in tongues. As if honoring the intensity of the believers' fervor, Baron Cohen does not act up - he goes with the holy-water flow...
...showing bursts of authentic emotion Saturday as he waved to the faithful who?d turned out, and proudly sang parts of the Bavarian regional anthem. "Inside of me, so many memories of my years in Munich and Regensburg are coming back, memories of people and events that left deep traces in me," he said...
...alone in his newfound sentiments. Pain and anger are running though the veins of many New Orleans musicians these days. Ivan Neville, a member along with Butler of a newly formed group, The New Orleans Social Club, chose to sing an angry Vietnam-era antiestablishment anthem, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," when the group converged in an Austin studio this spring along with several noted New Orleans names. While Ivan has settled in Austin, his father, Aaron Neville, who lost his home, is living in Nashville and cannot go home to his native city yet because he suffers from...