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...Both the Super Bowl and last week's Grammy Awards were beamed in live. Taped segments of Los Angeles Laker games, boxing and wrestling matches, and favorites like The Arsenio Hall Show have also been shown. Disney even paid for a musical special, headlined by singer Greenwood, whose patriotic anthem God Bless the USA is one of the songs most requested by the troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Saudi Arabia | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Sunday, in Rockwell Cage at MIT, the 10th anniversary of this February warm-up to the real rowing season took place. Complete with the ceremonial warbling of the national anthem, this year's Charles River All Star Has-Beens Sprints maintained the irreverent tone of its origins, while still broadening its appeal...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Rowers Excel At CRASH-B Sprints | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

They stopped twice during the march to pledge allegiance to American flags hanging in the street. Protesters also sang the national anthem twice, bringing the afternoon's total to four renditions of the old Francis Scott Key tune...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll and Erica L. Werner, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Demonstrators Rally for Desert Storm | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...crowds at the National Hockey League All-Star game and the National Football Conference championship yelled and chanted continuously throughout the playing of the national anthem, their fists raised in frenzied pride in their country's military prowess. Their behavior resembled the applause at a movie theater when Chuck Norris blows away the last commie/terrorist/bad guy with his missile launcher...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Beyond Good and Evil: The Foolishness of Demonstrators | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

Most Star-Mangled Banner Even George Bush didn't have to read her lips to know that Roseanne Barr's televised rendition of the national anthem before a San Diego Padres baseball game was a foul bawl. It was not only screechy, it was scratchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of Show Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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