Word: concertized
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...musicians - Eddie Cochran's "Three Stars" - was recorded just one day after their deaths. But Don McLean's 1971 single "American Pie" turned the plane crash into a metaphor for the moment when the United States lost its last shred of innocence. McLean envisioned that last Buddy Holly concert in Clear Lakes, Iowa: teenagers in pink carnations and pick-up trucks, dancing and falling in love and dancing some more. The snow fell silently outside as the country teetered on the brink of the 1960s; no one in the ballroom had any idea what would happen next...
Doug Bailey, chief communications officer for CHA, said these efforts will ensure the Alliance’s survival because they were planned in concert with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and other state agencies that helped plan the state-wide cuts in October...
...fact, J. Crew scored a clothing coup throughout the Inaugural festivities. The girls also wore J. Crew coats to Sunday's star-studded "We Are One" concert, which was broadcast on HBO. The next night, at the Kids' Inaugural concert, where the Obama gals and military families rocked out to Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, Michelle donned an olive J. Crew cardigan over a blue J. Crew skirt and top. The First Lady also wore green J. Crew gloves to the Inauguration. The company says the pieces were designed specifically for the new First Family, though J. Crew...
...could see this mood reflected in We Are One, the Inaugural concert aired on HBO. Bruce Springsteen kicked off the show with "The Rising," his 2002 anthem to the heroes of 9/11. The song evolved over the Bush years; it began as a eulogy, then was used as a campaign song by both John Kerry and Obama. Now it played as if America was looking back to the early days after 9/11 and asking for a do-over, to return to the moment before that communal spirit curdled into acrimony...
...That concert also showed, though, that you can't just wish acrimony away. There was an immediate controversy when a prayer by gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was left off the HBO broadcast. There's a whole talk-show industry devoted to feeding those "stale political arguments." And we've seen overblown predictions before that events would ennoble American culture--see, again, 9/11...