Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mission of subway musicians might seem simple: attract attention, entertain, and make sure to leave a receptacle for donations...
...down on your knees!" and "Spread your arms!" At least one Somali found the treatment inexplicably rude, given that the men were unarmed. "If you are a human being, it's not good for you to be lying on the ground," he said. "I would like to entertain these foreigners with open arms, but I very much regret this problem...
...love affairs, "Dianagate," "Camillagate" -- the headlines are hurricanes buffeting a fragile, archaic institution that may not be able to withstand the impact. Each new revelation elicits more serious calls for the monarchy to be taxed, for a cut in its numbers who are paid a government stipend, and -- to entertain the unthinkable -- for the whole institution to be abolished. Even knowledgeable observers are writing off Charles and Diana as the next King and Queen. How could they take coronation vows, given their farce of a marriage, she possibly too high-strung to be Queen Consort, he exposed as quintessential...
...parents, the choice of actresses may have been less disturbing in this instance if the women acted as either men or as more feminine mothers. With gardening clothes, powdered hair, and hunched posture, the characters seem unusually old and androgynous: our curiosity about their gender serves to confuse, not entertain...
Despite the changes, Guthrie retains his power to entertain, to endear, to ramble and finally--to remind his listeners once again of music's potential to change the world...