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...home as they depart the hotel. (I suppose this goes along with the whole “kids” theme.) I’m taking in the sight of this big rock candy mountain (as it were) when some young folk from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a children’s choir that performed earlier at the event, run over to sample a few Fruit Roll...
...token conservatives in the back spice things up a little, sparring with Lapham over the late Ronald Reagan’s popularity. The rest of the audience, a veritable Greek chorus of liberals, verbally rushes to defend its oracle...
Remember “Closing Time”? Those are Slichter’s insistently-shaken maracas in the first verse of the tuneful 1998 hit, his exploding backbeat charging the song from the moment the first chorus hits. Fellow alum and bandmate Daniel D. Wilson ’83, meanwhile, propels the number—which he wrote along with most of Semisonic’s three-album catalog—with his high-pitched earnestness...
...Baltimore was carried off in 1631. Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe both mention the frightening trade in their writings; at that time, pamphlets and speeches by survivors and escaped slaves had a huge influence on the popular imagination. James Thomson's famously rousing 1740 song Rule Britannia, with its chorus about how Britons "never shall be slaves," was a direct allusion to the Barbary terrorism...
...Most of these women are stars to me. All five nominees have appeared on the City Center stage in one or more of the "Encores!" series (which itself won a special Tony in 2000 "for excellence in theatre"). D'Abruzzo was the hardest to notice: she sang in the chorus of the Encores! "Carnival" two seasons back. Pinkins was a sensaysh as the lead in the 2001 "House of Flowers." Of the two "Wicked" witches, Chenoweth (who plays Glinda, the blond one) had two splendid Encores! turns, in "Strike Up the Band" in 1998 and in the Barbara Harris-Barbra...