Word: anthemic
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...national anthem got the loudest cheers at the Saturday afternoon NCAA championship consolation game...
...glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain a visa...
...strains of the Internationale, the Communist anthem, faded as Mikhail Gorbachev rose one last time to drive home his message in the Kremlin's cavernous Palace of Congresses. He began by hailing the 5,000 delegates and distinguished foreign guests at the 27th Communist Party Congress, which had given him a resounding mandate to revitalize the country's sputtering economy. Then he threw down the gauntlet. "Here's to the work we've done, comrades," declared the General Secretary. "And now for the work yet to be done...
JACKSON BROWNE: Lives in the Balance (Asylum). Wherein the singer-songwriter does a little housecleaning in his many roomed conscience. The first song, For America, is a deliberate, even self-mocking evocation of a signature Browne anthem, For Everyman, just as the last cut, Black and White, is at once a warning and a sign toward a new direction. "Time running out time running out/ For the fool still asking what his life is about," he sings, and since no one is better at lyrical rock introspection, it is plain that Browne has set himself a new course. This album...
...Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and the other awards that show business showers on itself traditionally thank everyone from their agents to their analysts for making it all possible. But how many of them thank God? Literally? Michael Jackson did at the 28th Grammy Awards when We Are the World, the anthem that raised $50 million for African relief, won four little golden gramophones (for song of the year, record of the year, pop group performance and short music video). Indeed, after the presentation many involved in the all-star record acknowledged that they had felt the hand of the Almighty...