Word: piaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born composer and singer whose 500 or so plaintive, compassionate songs became best known in the U.S. through the cabaret-style musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; of a pulmonary embolism; in Bobigny, France. With a dramatic intensity often likened to that of Edith Piaf, Brel sang about loneliness, lost love, war, old age and death. At 37, not wanting to become "an old singer," he stopped giving concerts and began a new career as an actor and director. After being treated for lung cancer...
...ignominiously. At its end, the battle-tested "green berets" of the proud First Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, who had backed the coup, were trucked off to Zéralda for the disbanding of their disgraced unit. The watching pieds noirs wept; the Legionnaires roared out the words of Edith Piaf's plaintive song, "Je ne regrette rien. " The Algerian war has elements of epic grandeur and terror that cry out for a Thucydides, if not a Gibbon to describe them. British Historian Horne, whose previous books include three studies of Franco-German conflicts, may not be in that league...
Deborah Benedict--will sing the melodies of Edith Piaf at the French Library...
With the artificial respirator of an abrasively amplified mike, she can belt out a song, but not with the earth-moving gusto of the classic belters. She can torch, but not with the heart-wrought intimacy and conviction of a Piaf, a Billie Holiday or her own mother, Judy Garland. As a dancer, she is adroit and nimble but she does not dazzle - though her legs do. As for her acting skills, they ex ist mainly in the eyes of her true and devout believers...
...little could detract from ABC's superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...