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...would like to say a few words to you.' Everybody looked at us, and we shook our heads. 'You mean you're not politicians? Then praise the Lord!' And the whole church started laughing." The choir and its soloist, Lannie Spann McBride, perform the film's final funeral anthem...
...unbreakable union of free republics, joined together forever by great Russia . . ." At 6 a.m. each day, the opening lines of the Soviet state anthem ring out in Russian from radios across the vast country. They are heard by reindeer-herding Chukchi tribesmen in Siberia, Buryat farmers near the Mongolian border and Estonian fishermen by the Baltic Sea. The words project an illusion of homogeneity that Moscow finds increasingly difficult to maintain...
Feasting on turkey, vegetables and cider, students compared opinions of life at Harvard and in the United States. The gathering of about 60 students closed with a singing of the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada...
...only silence. Then more silence. At last, as the uneasy quiet dragged on, a few of the friends who had come all the way from Illinois to cheer Arlene on, just a group of kids and moms and weathered-looking women in wind- breakers, started singing their national anthem, alone and a cappella in the big arena. On television, they said, it was a moving sight. In person, the scene was something else: a little embarrassing, a little giggle-making -- and so, when the impromptu chorus rose up, moving in an even deeper way. An unscheduled song of national pride...
Perfection hit its head on a diving board last week and, in a blissful spell of dizziness, thought it heard the Suriname anthem playing on the Olympic Victrola. For just a second there, a 4-ft. 11-in. Turk seemed to be lifting a 420-lb. dumbbell, the equivalent of two Olympic committeemen. A buoyant black swimmer with ordinary thighs was receiving the gold medal. South Korea was rioting in a boxing ring. The phones were working. The laundry was ready. And in the race for regal figure, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis both came running...