Word: anthem
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...unity and threatening to stall the political process altogether. A Sunni council member said the attacks had totally altered "sensitivities." First the constitution-signing ceremony was put off for three days of mourning. Then on Friday evening, as a sextet from the National Symphony Orchestra tuned up the national anthem and accompanied children from Baghdad's School of Music and Ballet, the landmark agreement fell apart. For the third time since November, the powerful Ayatullah Sistani spoiled Washington's plans. Each time his purpose seemed to be to ensure that the Shi'ites would emerge as Iraq's dominant leaders...
...holiday / That’s why we only work when we need the money,” singer Alex Kapranos enthuses while guitars rage and cascade beneath him. The result sounds like a new wave torch song crossed with a high-velocity punk thrasher crossed with a beer hall anthem. It’s also the best guitar rock song in years...
...Maats did more than just protect weak and susceptible Adams. He went far and beyond the normal constraints of interhouse warfare during this year’s Primal Scream, painting himself in yellow and running around Harvard Yard with the Soviet national anthem playing in the background in defiance of Kirkland hostilities, frostbite and public embarrassment...
...rock opera transferred to the stage, it was calcified in the made-in-Israel film version by Norman Jewison - who, if you're wondering, is not Jewish. Blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus (Ted Neely) faces off against a black Judas (Carl Anderson). The show had two hit songs, the anthem "Superstar" and the ballad "I Don't Know How to Love Him," but its theatricality got lost out there in the desert...
...keep his wife from getting mad at him. Romano, 46, is even more uber-guy than his Ray Barone character on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond. He likes to gamble so much that he placed a Super Bowl bet on how long Beyonce's rendition of the national anthem would take (thanks to some overhead planes and a really long brave, he made the over). His sharp take on contemporary manhood has created the No. 2--ranked sitcom for the past four years, according to Nielsen Media Research. And yet Raymond gets cited by sitcom writers as a favorite alongside...