Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harris says she sang in the school's world-class choir, played on the volleyball team for two years, served on the student council, was president of her church youth group, was a member of the Spanish Club, won the award for best all-round student in her high school, earned a place in the National Honor Society and won the National Achievement award for Outstanding Negroes...
...luminous day earlier this summer, a small group clustered on the Truman Balcony of the White House for a get-acquainted ritual given by Hillary Rodham Clinton. A visiting choir was singing below in the Rose Garden to the President. The flowers were voluptuous, the iced tea tangy. Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster moved through the group, hunching his shoulders so that he was closer to the shorter guests, a beaded chain holding his White House pass hanging outside his pinstripe suit -- a shackle perhaps. But that is an afterthought...
...ambitious. Beginning with a fade-in of the tramp's a cappella singing, it slowly builds and swells, with new instruments constantly added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished, the music slowly drifts away on the wings of this unlikely duet...
Among the "special guests" were the ghost of Freddy Mercury and "The Male Choir of Fr. Augustus." A Mark Twain look-alike criticized the Toronto-based band, whom he called "Canadian carpetbaggers," for their apparent misrepresentation of the Twain classic "Tom Sawyer" in a song of the same name...
...reticence is a departure, given the open life she lived for a decade in the Governor's mansion in Little Rock. She drove her own Oldsmobile, waited in line at the movies, entertained in the kitchen and had the church choir over for picnics in the backyard. She purposely sent the household staff off on weekends so she could go to the grocery store on Saturday mornings. In a state where Gloria Steinem was considered by some a communist, Hillary started out being regarded as a stuck-up feminist from Wellesley and Yale who wouldn't change her name...