Word: anthemic
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...Espionage dramas need their mysteries, and the first one here is: the international what? Has that adjective become a noun, like the continental or the cosmopolitan? Is the international a man or an anthem, a cartel or a cocktail...
...Chart": I don't think it was the least bit "predictable" that Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl [Feb. 2]. Given what she's been through in the past six months, it showed remarkable fortitude for her to manage to perform yet at all. Jennifer Fisher, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...this ideal make Ladysmith a natural match for Paul Simon and Sesame Street, it also enabled them to spread their message of understanding into the political realm as cultural ambassadors. Anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and abroad took Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music as an unofficial anthem. In 1994, the group performed at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa. Shabalala and company have hardly slowed down since, producing a steady stream of recordings and maintaining an energetic touring schedule. “Every time when we perform, we feel that people...
...that is in some ways in better synchrony than the athletes on the field. That, at least, is the implication of a new study from Stanford University - one that also concludes that if you want to know how fans become so simpatico, you can start with the National Anthem...
...while the technical aspects of the program-from the logistics of rolling the stage on and off the field to the roles of the hundreds of extras to the places of the pyrotechnics-were practiced even more without the band on hand. Even Jordin Sparks' rendition of the National Anthem-two minutes and nine seconds long-was practiced again and again...