Word: nagila
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Shortly after the release of 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, I asked Bono about U2's place in contemporary music. "We're a wedding band now," he said decisively. Before I could inquire about availability and if the Edge knew the chord progressions on "Hava Nagila," he elaborated: "Our biggest accomplishment is that we've made a few songs people want to play during important moments in their lives. That's a very humbling thing ... If we're remembered as a great wedding band, I'll take...
...roasted Franco along with Tria. Members of the Hasty Pudding cast then sprang into action to give Franco an impromptu Bar Mitzvah, led by “Rabbi Spider Man” and complete with the band’s rendition of “Hava Nagila.” “That was actually really touching,” Franco later said of his unexpected induction into manhood. At a press conference after the event, Franco said he plans to have another Bar Mitzvah when he gets a break from working toward an MFA in fiction writing from...
...When Marshall M. Goldberg ’68 took the stage, after two minutes of an ironic parody of “Hava nagila,” alumni lifted long-time New York Times reporter Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 up and down in a chair as the audience clapped along...
After the tournament finished, besotted Beiruters attempted to extend the fun by organizing a Holy War of Flipcup: Jews vs. Christians. The Hebrew contingent lost the match by mere seconds, but was buoyed by a raucous rendition of Hava Nagila. On the other side of the table, the victors celebrated with cries of “Jee-zus! Jee-zus!,” igniting a furor not seen since Wal-Mart’s midnight release party for “The Passion of the Christ?...
...belongs at a Daughters of the American Revolution convention. . . . A red brick building on Plympton Street is currently awash in a tumultuous sea of institutional politics. An inside source says noses are browner, asses are glistening, and ups are being sucked like nobody’s business. Hava Nagila...