Word: crooned
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Your muskie is an insensitive and unromantic brute. This morning I tried to croon him up from his green and slimy twilight. As we trolled along in our boat above him, I sang "Where or When," and then "Paper Moon," ("it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me"), and, with contemptible insincerity, "Don't Think Twice (It's All Right...
...they ever think when they began that someday the President of the U.S. would croon one of their songs to them? Stoller laughs. "We thought if we were really lucky they might last six months...
...selections, there are bound to be some agreements and disappointments. Diddley doing his classic blues tune "I'm a Man" really can't fail under any circumstances, and Eric Clapton's blistering guitar work on Cream's "I Feel Free" succeeds in any decade, while Frank Sinatra could croon names from the phone book and still make it sound mellifluous. Unfortunately, the producers have tried to put cast member Little Steven onto one selection, "Inside of Me", and he sounds like a poor man's Bob Dylan (who incidentally appears on "Gotta Serve Somebody," but is crushed by the weight...
...season when smiling choruses of admissions officers, tour guides and sundry administrators begin to sing of Harvard's virtues, the foremost of which, recently, is the diversity of its students and graduates. The College, they croon, produces poets and priests, musicians and physicians, athletes and artists. But nowhere is this resplendent diversity so evident as in the difference between two of its most prominent and successful alma libres, Al Gore '69 and Alan L. Keyes...
...weddings began early with a dispute over the first wedding. Was it the marriage of Chatham hardware-store managers Monique Croon, 33, and Dean Braid, 27, whose televised wedding was accompanied by fireworks? Or was it that of Cheryl Berthelsen and Matthew Beach, both 28 and from Virginia, who won a $15,000 auction at weddingchannel.com to be married in the South Pacific on private Turtle Island, which employs daylight saving time? Later, 700 couples were married in a ceremony in Philadelphia; 2,000 in a Bangkok ceremony; 110 along the Delaware River; 20 couples in the Maryland courthouse where...