Word: anthemic
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...heart burns just like a flame’ the best simile he could think of?” With moments like these, it’s hard to take the record seriously. While once lauded for his anthemic appeal, Lenny Kravitz seems to have lost most of his prowess. It couldn’t have gone the way of his libido—the rocker recently announced his three-year abstention from sex—because Kravitz hasn’t produced anything close to an anthem in a long, long time. “Are You Gonna...
...number of shots, I don’t think there’s any question he made two or three big saves for us to keep us in the position that we were.”TWO-MINUTE MINORSShowing off their American pride, the Harvard Lowkeys sang the national anthem to kick off the first round of the 56th annual Beanpot…Although the Crimson is entering the championship round of the Beanpot with a sub-.500 record, there’s still hope for the title. Harvard has taken home three Beanpot championships while holding a losing record?...
...They've got the band strategically located right behind our seats on press row. I think they planned it this way... 14 minutes on the shootaround clock, then we'll get the starting lineups, the national anthem and the tip a little after 6:00. Stay tuned...
...lyrics failed to engender much enthusiasm among ordinary Spaniards either. As a result the Spanish Olympic committee withdrew them on Wednesday, just days after it announced a winner. Gone is the gala, scheduled for January 21, at which Plácido Domingo was to perform the newly worded anthem for the first time. Gone is the effort to gather 500,000 supporting signatures so that the lyrics might be submitted to parliament for official approval. And gone, once and for all, is "glory to the sons who gave to history justice and greatness, democracy and peace...
...India do better than most with the same elements, but they had Nobel laureates (Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Rabindranath Tagore respectively) writing their lyrics. And if some nations have tended to whip up enthusiasm with a ribald reference or two (the now decertified second verse of the German national anthem can read like a gleeful celebration of sex and drunkenness), others rely on bombs bursting in air and other martial images for their oomph. France's La Marseillaise may be the most stirring of any national anthem (or so it sounded coming from the lovely mouth of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca...