Word: anthem
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...disc’s leading track, “Get Over It,” is a rollicking hand-clapper, an anthem worthy of any Queen album. Other highlights are the sparkling, soft-spoken ballad “Hello, My Treacherous Friends” and “What to Do,” in which lead singer Damian Kulash chides a girl whose “bets favor headbands and cassettes.” Gentle pokes at their ’80s influences merely represent a fraction of the band’s wit, which lend the album...
...legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened a game with the national anthem and came back during the 7th-inning stretch to perform the Macarena...
Woody Guthrie sang about Lewis and Clark country. Instead of his usual hobo's plainsong, Guthrie broke into an anthem that might have been written by the National Association of Manufacturers: "Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Your power is turning our darkness to dawn/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." Guthrie ardently wired up the dawn of Manifest Destiny to hydroelectric power: "Tom Jefferson's vision would not let him rest/An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest/Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." The beautiful, wild river made Guthrie...
Suddenly patriotic? Are you one of those who just last summer was too shy to sing the national anthem at baseball games and this year is celebrating the Fourth of July by dyeing your hair red, white and blue? Feel a little iffy, though, on the details? Can't tell the Sons of Liberty from...
...Duran in concert, a course in auto repair or a daily exercise regimen. With the help of a video camera, it can capture special family moments for an instant home movie or create a "video postcard" for far-off relatives. The VCR's contagious tune is, in short, the anthem of an entertainment revolution...