Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martin plays the slick-talking, fast-walking and knee-jerking evangelist who brings some hope into his parish's life--in God we trust, all others pay cash, of course. He performs his "sermons" adjacent his choir, the Angels of Mercy, one of the film's few standouts...
...updating her grandmother-in-law's forays into blitz-ravaged areas. Despite the best efforts of the staff, not all the planned events came off, and the visit looked to come up short. Diana read the situation at once, and asked to hear more from the lusty gospel choir that had sung for her earlier. Who could blame her? Their selection had been Everything's Gonna Be All Right...
...affectingly revisits in his off-Broadway drama The Destiny of Me. He seems especially unsympathetic to closet cases and bisexuals, as personified in a Mormon character whose ambitions clash with his libido: the man's straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience) rather than explaining gay angst to the uninitiated. The author and the delighted spectators reflect an evolution in attitude akin to what happened among blacks and women: one generation sought empathy; the next demanded justice; the generation equivalent...
Suddenly the the screen's vision descended onto Little Rock, where a choir ululated and a crowd cheered. Shhhhhh. Chastened whispers reverberated in the hall in anticipation of Bill's great moment. And there he was, a hulking form of a man, graying and hoarse, an individual who had just assumed the most enormous expanse of power, consummating a lifetime's fervent ambitions with the help of a nation's choice. I stared at his face. Such enormous pride and success seemed to well up in his eyes, so much so that he must temporarily have lost sense...
Allen became a resident tutor in Leverett House in 1989. He was also a member of the Memorial Church choir...