Word: choiring
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...envied by other wives. I felt ashamed because I didn't appreciate him." After each beating came apologies and offerings, gifts, a trip. "It's like blackmail. You think it's going to stop, but it doesn't." Collins never told anyone -- not her friends in the church choir, not even a son by her first marriage. "I should have, but it was the humiliation of it all. I'm a professional woman. I didn't want people to think I was crazy." But some of them knew anyway; they had seen the bruises, the black eye behind the dark...
...last year we seemed to be on the verge of a major new trend, the theme of which was angels. People were snapping up angel pins and wearing them on their shoulders, where normally the chip is carried. Soon, the trend spotters hoped, there would be a rage for choir music, angel food cake and Marshmallow Fluff. Huge feathery wings would sprout out from trench coats and parkas. But, alas, angels sputtered and stalled and never quite got off the ground...
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...