Word: anthemic
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...there were still 80 fans in the stands at the baseball field with its P.A. system and official scorekeeper and electric scoreboard--and six fans sitting on blankets in foul territory at the softball field listening to the national anthem float over from the neighboring field. And even if attendance showed up as color commentary in an article, or in the tiny print at the bottom of a scoring box, we never cast judgment...
...over? No way, but the ( financially troubled TV studio that created him, Lorimar-Telepictures, may soon accept that fate. Lorimar, which produces Dallas and Knots Landing, has stumbled badly after expanding too fast into areas beyond its ken, including feature films (among its flops: Made in Heaven and American Anthem). Last week the company agreed to a friendly acquisition by Warner Communications, whose TV studio already produces such hits as Night Court and Growing Pains, for $630 million in stock and the assumption of $550 million of Lorimar's debt. But late in the week came word of a potential...
Although the group was not as professional as the Din and Tonics, they displayed a lot of raw talent, spectactors said. "We sang the National Anthem, and 'Big Bottoms," from the movie 'Spinal Tap,' because it seemed appropriate at the time," said one of the singers, who requested anonymity...
Although many students lined the windows to clap and cheer, not everyone enjoyed the flash dance. At 1:29 a.m, the Harvard Police received a complaint about "nudists singing the National Anthem," one policeman said. The approaching patrol car sent the singing group running for cover. By the time the police arrived, the policeman said, there was nobody--no bare body, that is--in sight...
...studio quickly sutured the three episodes together and released them as a theatrical feature. Minimal expenditures, more revenue. Then Disney launched an afternoon program, The Mickey Mouse Club, which introduced the Mouseketeers, a troupe of child stars who cavorted like stagestruck Cub Scouts and intoned the show's anthem-hymn ("Who's the leader of the club/ That's made for you and me?/ M-I-C! K-E-Y!/ M-O-U-S-E!"). Disney had invented yet another addictive rite of passage, especially for all those preteen boys who avidly monitored the progress of young womanhood stirring under...