Word: pious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been superseded by pious folk-rock in the Roman Catholic churches that gave it birth, but the ethereal, sinuous style of monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well...
With its ecologically pious displays of white tigers and dolphins -- and no topless show girls -- the almost tasteful Mirage has profoundly enlarged and updated the notion of Vegas amusement since it opened in 1989. The general Las Vegas marketing spin today is that the city is fun for the whole family. It seems to be an effective p.r. line, but it's an idea that the owners of the new Luxor and MGM Grand may have taken too much to heart...
...Mystery of Edwin Drood. A dark leading man, a romantic ingenue, an opium vendor, twins from Cylon, a pious reverend, and a cockney laborer. Which one of these people killed Edwin Drood? The audience decides when the cast and crew presents an evening of musical murder and intrigue. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $3/$5/$7 for students...
Four decades later, it's not over yet. William Franklin Graham Jr. grew up on a North Carolina dairy farm, the son of pious parents who believed in spankings and Bible readings and persistent instruction in clean living. In 1933, on the day Prohibition was repealed, his father made Billy and his sister Catherine drink beer until they vomited, an early exercise in aversion therapy that lasted a lifetime...
...Mystery of Edwin Drood. A dark leading man, a romantic ingenue, an opium vendor, twins from Ceylon, a pious reverend and a cockney laborer. Which one of these people killed Edwin Drood? The audience decides when the cast and crew of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players presents an evening of musical murder and intrigue. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $3-$7 for students...