Word: rainbow
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...Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley 2. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley 3. Your Cheating Heart - Hank Williams 4. America the Beautiful 5. Amazing Grace 6. Yesterday - Beatles 7. Over the Rainbow 8. If I Fell - Beatles 9. Take Five - Dave Brubeck 10. Any of Ella Fitzgerald's major hits...
...Although heavily skewed to the soundtrack of the baby-boom generation, the poll was not confined to rock 'n' roll, thus "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...
...Life - The Beatles 2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 3. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland 4. Here, There And Everywhere - The Beatles 5. Tracks of My Tears - The Miracles 6. The Times, They Are A-Changing - Bob Dylan 7. Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday 8. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt 9. People Get Ready - The Impressions 10. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers...
...highlight certain specialized categories of books in "centers" with their own stacks and reading rooms. Most are devoted to identity groups, a reward for heavy fundraising efforts in minority communities: the African American Center, the Chinese Center, the Filipino American Center, the Gay and Lesbian Center. The library's Rainbow Coalition feel is rounded out by a large international center with foreign-language books, and even an Environmental Center with books about conservation. The San Francisco Public Library may be the first in the country to be organized around Democratic core constituencies--Al Gore '69 could accomplish a full...
...rainbow-colored head fills the screen and devours its prey, chewing with its mouth open, smacking its lips and flashing its teeth...