Word: sing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anne Hopkins finds June 5 to be the day that continues to haunt. Turning on the radio as she awoke that morning, she learned that Robert Kennedy had been shot. "As I began to absorb what was happening, the phone rang," she says. "It was my mother, calling to sing Happy Birthday...
...feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6, 1904, some old friends gather, as they have for many years on this day, at the home of two elderly sisters for dancing and supper. They sing songs and make speeches. They quarrel about the opera and worry about the drunkenness of one man while not noticing that another is getting quietly blotto. It's every awful party we have ever attended, and Huston is wonderfully ambiguous about it: affectionate toward the hospitable impulses at work here, slyly satirical about the clumsy ways these impulses are expressed...
...party, a tenor sings an old air, The Lass of Aughrim. This puts Gretta Conroy (Anjelica Huston) in a pensive mood: a delicate young man she once loved, and who hastened his death by courting her, used to sing it. In their hotel room, Gretta tells her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) about this lost love, arousing an unworthy jealousy. She falls asleep, and he stares out the window, as the snow -- symbol of the universe's indifference to petty social preoccupations and petty emotions too -- falls "upon all the living and the dead." Nature, playing no favorites, blankets them...
...white shirts decorated with big red crosses dole out the rations. Elders load the 100-lb. bags onto their backs and scurry back to their village groups, shoving people out of the way as they go. As the grain is divided, the people smile. They laugh. Some even sing. They are happy. They have food...
Billy Graham decided that Gorbachev had an "evangelical quality," but without God. And during the mellow Cliburn sing-along at evening's end, George Will leaned over to Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and whispered, "That song just cost you 200 ships...