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Game start, Boston: We all stand and the men remove their hats. Some group sings the national anthem with embellishments better left to one of the innumerable pop/rock stations. We clap anyway...
Game start, Boise: We all stand and the men remove their hats. Someone sings the national anthem with embellishments better left to one of the innumerable country stations. We clap anyway...
...soon as Lilith and Adam were joined together, they began to quarrel. Adam said: "It is your duty to obey me." Lilith replied, "We are both equal...and I will not be submissive to you." Set that last quote to music, and you'd have a fitting anthem for Lilith Fair...
...cheek of a younger South African woman who knelt beside the flower-strewn memorial to her brother, felled by a police bullet on June 16, 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising. After lighting candles, the kneeling woman and three other family members softly intoned their new national anthem, God Bless Africa. "That's when I lost it," Jamison said later. "I identified with them as black people, and immediately the image of slavery came into my head. This is an extraordinary survival and triumph. That's why I'm glad we came here...
...expensive sneakers, they are as skeptical of the media as they are of politics. The hippest ads tap into their hostility toward hype. "Don't insult our intelligence," read one Nike magazine spread. "Tell us what it is. Tell us what it does. And don't play the national anthem while you do it." Sprite rocketed from seventh to fourth best-selling soft drink after scrapping its schmaltzy jingle, "I Like the Sprite in You," in 1994 in favor of the slogan "Image is nothing. Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst." Self-mockery is a mark of Xer sophistication...