Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Americans are frustrated crooners who sing in the shower and warble along with their Walkman tapes. But aside from belting out the national anthem with the crowd in the bleachers or cutting loose with the congregation on Sunday, most have been too shy or too sober to sing in public. Now thousands of closet Sinatras and Madonnas are publicly vocalizing, thanks to a nifty electronic device from Japan called the karaoke...
...Saturday, May 4, and for millions who can see it as a 3-hr. TV special on NBC this Sunday. As befitted a night devoted to fond memories, it generated a few more. There was something old: Martha Reeves, looking better than ever as she reprised her Vandellas anthem, Nowhere to Run. Something new: Patti LaBelle joining Joe Cocker in an unlikely but inspired duet of his You Are So Beautiful. Something borrowed: the Four Tops stepping in at a moment's notice to sing backup to Boy George and Stevie Wonder in his new Part Time Lover. And something...
After the solemnity of the cemetery scene, the mood shifted at the air base, where a German military band played The Star-Spangled Banner and U.S. Air Force musicians followed with the West German national anthem. Reagan and Kohl stood at attention on a raised blue platform before 7,500 spectators, many waving small U.S. and West German flags. Said Kohl: "This walk with the President over the graves of the soldiers was not an easy walk . . . I thank you personally as a friend that you undertook this walk with...
...presence in American life, his words, his cadences, his voice and visage and body English all injected electronically into the nation's consciousness. Then November. Poof. Mondale vanished, like the minute explosion of light on the screen when one turns off an old television set after the national anthem--the little death of a star. Mondale reappeared not long ago, gave a few interviews, then dematerialized again, disappearing into a Washington law firm. He became, in short, a private man, a resident of the same obscurity (almost) that everyone else calls home...
Finally the stream slowed to a tickle, the national anthem was played, and the game began...