Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt privileged to have the opportunity to listen to the people doing the organizing talk about what really happened," said Grace K. Katabaruki '99, an Afro-American studies and English concentrator...
...husband, Senator Kennedy and William Kennedy Smith (John stood by Smith during his rape trial) all read Scripture. Others attending included Victoria Reggie, the Senator's wife, and Maurice Tempelsman, Jackie's companion for many years. David Davis, a gospel singer from a nearby town in Florida, sang Amazing Grace and Will the Circle Be Unbroken a cappella...
...original old gold isn't good enough, now there's a heap of pretty paste imitations. Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, a fictionalized biopic of songwriter Carole King, has '60s-type tunes for girl groups and beach boys. Hanks' new film That Thing You Do!, about the Wonders, an imaginary pop group from Erie, Pennsylvania, features songs in the style of the Beatles, the Ronettes, the Ventures, Jan and Dean, even a little bogus Bacharach. And the ultimate British rip-off group, the Rutles, are cashing in on the Anthology with their own Archaeology CD--satire...
...Rutles album has an advantage over the CDs from Grace of My Heart and That Thing You Do!: it doesn't have to support a movie narrative. The Hanks and Anders films have big problems as nostalgic history and satisfying dramas. But the music is first-class evocation. The essential artifact for both works is not the movie but the album. Coincidentally, each film's sound track was developed the same way: a dozen or so pop composers--some veterans of the '60s like Bacharach, Lesley Gore (It's My Party) and King's ex-husband Gerry Goffin, others...
Except for a Dixie Cup-esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m. "Burt consciously breaks rules with bar lines," says Costello. "He's breaking the meter, but it still feels natural. And he expresses feeling so much better than the trumped-up romantic ballads of today, where the emotions seem to have come...