Word: sing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff sings For He's a Jolly Good Fellow to Steven and Marie and Owen. The children don't exactly sing, but at the end of the song they put their hands high in the air: "Yayyyyyy!!!" ((clap, clap, clap...
...stage fright. Those who take care of the performers admit to having some jitters of their own as well. Last fall Dr. Michael Saviano was roused from his sickbed by the San Francisco Opera to tend a singer whose voice was giving out. His verdict: finish the performance but sing at half power. His backstage visit concluded, a feverish and bleary Saviano headed for the hospital to await his patient -- and a reassuring once-over of those valuable vocal cords...
...Coretta King was booed when she spoke for Young. "That was yesterday," some delegates called up to her. "What have you done for us today?" Young slipped out the back door. Only when Jackson arrived and made an emotional plea for unity did all those onstage lock arms and sing We Shall Overcome. Jackson rebuked his followers: "When I think about the roads I've walked with Andy, and the leadership of Mrs. King -- her home bombed, her husband assassinated, her children raised by a widow -- she deserves to be heard." Those who talk about a "changed" Jackson in this...
Perhaps these comments more than anything else explain Jesse Jackson's growing appeal to liberal white voters. In the kingdom of the bland, the preacher who has got a sermon to sing is king. That may explain why Jackson received 19% of the vote in Dukakis' home state, even though blacks make up just 3% of the Massachusetts voting-age population. At a Jackson rally in Little Rock, a onetime Simon delegate who had switched her allegiance told the crowd, "I'm tired of trying to figure out who's going to win. I want to vote for the person...
Despite the sincerity of the singing, the production seems oddly stiff. The singers have no problems executing the notes; it's the acting--or rather non-acting--that gives them the most problems. In the famous garden love scene, Goodwin and Lessner sing most sweetly to each other. Unfortunately they look more like two slabs in Stonehenge than the amorous lovers they are supposed...