Word: oded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jersey Republican Michael Pappas lost after his opponent ran a video of him singing an ode to Ken Starr to the tune of a famous song. Name the song...
...World Series. If it's poetry one wants, one may write a celebratory ode to a baseball field in New York City or San Diego, and the lights that blaze like a giant's necklace, and the stirrings of memory as the country stays young as long as possible into late October. For myself, I dream a scoreboard with Yankee numbers higher than other numbers, and a bunch of guys in pinstripes piling on their pitcher in the ninth, and a nutty voice on radio telling me the only news I wish to hear...
Starting with the downbeat of the first movement of the symphony, though, critique becomes superfluous. Under Cortese's expert, if nervous, direction, the orchestra sailed confidently through the misty opening, the playful hints of the "Ode to Joy" theme to come, the fiery and furious scherzo, the graceful sweeping themes in the violins, the lyrical woodwind solos. The opening movements were filled with as much mystery and grandeur and promise as they ever were...
...third "slow" movement and the final movement was much more luxurious than Cortese's probably would have been; Ozawa somehow hovered over the orchestra, distilling each phrase into crystalline clarity and infusing his boundless energy into the performers. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus and superb cast of soloists carried the "Ode to Joy" theme to breathtaking heights of expression, and the audience, riveted, thrilled in every moment...
YOUR TURN Calling all humorists! Here's your challenge in our first-ever Contest of the Week: Can you top Michael Pappas? Last week the New Jersey Congressman sang an ode to Kenneth Starr on the House floor to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star...