Word: choirful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developer and a member of Ronald Reagan's campaign finance committee; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills. During the ceremony the bride sang a song, Because We're in Love, written for the occasion by Brother Richard, and a 50-voice choir performed Carpenters hits from...
...delighted with the dazzling scene: the world's finest tennis player and, at his side, a native daughter, radiant in a jewel-encrusted gown by Tenniswear Couturier Ted Tinling; it cost, they say, $8,000-four times the average Rumanian's yearly salary. "Long life!" chants the choir, and the couple heads off, this time in a flower-festooned oxcart, into...
...rock sounds like a not entirely successful hybrid of imported kitsch, slicked-up folk melodies and a touch of Russian soul. "Soviet pop music has absorbed contemporary rhythms, but it has remained something individual in its musical phrasing," insists Lev Leshchenko, whose baritone soared above massed strings and a choir on one of the country's biggest hits, Day of Victory, a pop-sized commemoration of the end of World War II. Much Soviet pop plunges into the past. Pesnyary (the Songsters) is a band regarded in official circles -if not among the kids-as the Soviet Beatles...
...Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which began with recitations from the Koran and a boys' choir chanting revolutionary songs. The ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 80, spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, did not attend; he dispatched his son, Seyyed Ahmed, to deliver his inaugural message, warning against "plotters" from either the U.S. or the Soviet Union and stressing the need to purge the parliament...
...these criticisms, half a million tourists are expected to flock to the village this summer. And the mountain folk of Oberammergau are unlikely soon to give up their Passion. Says a Roman soldier in the cast: "We have acted in this play as children. We have sung in the choir and lived with the text all our lives. We shall not abandon it because some people in New York and fancy art critics think Rosner is better. This is our play. They can't take it away from...