Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowds at professional-football games sing the national anthem with a fervor found nowhere else. This is entirely fitting, since the game is a true red-white-and-blue, exclusively American sport. To be sure, Canada has a weak, watered-down version of the game, played primarily by onetime American college stars who couldn't cut it in their homeland. The British Commonwealth and certain nations associated with its cultural tradition indulge in a footballish sport called rugby, which seems to consist in considerable part of beefy mesomorphs huddling in a heap called a "scrum" and jostling each other...
...counted at least six full-cast costume changes in No, No, Nanette, and there are about fifty members in the company. At one point, the men's chorus enters in art deco sweaters, knickers, and argyle socks; they carry banjos, and they sing "I Want to Be Happy." A "Tea for Two" number, set in Atlantic City, has the fifty garbed in the best and worst of flapper couture. At the finale you can hardly see the stage for the sequins...
...first in his trouser pockets, then in his vest pockets, then on his hips. Ruby Keeler makes an entrance (the first time we see her, she is descending a long curved staircase). Every time something important is about to occur, the full chorus assembles on stage, if only to sing eight bars of "Peach on the Beach." You're overwhelmed by the force of convention which runs through the show, structuring it, and because those conventions are so distant and bizarre, it's difficult not to like them...
...protection. It keeps a lot of Shriners and creeps away." She greets friends with a breezy "How's your ass anyway?" In casual conversation she may burp, giggle uncontrollably and then tell about the time at Westlake School when she and several girls tried to sing Happy Birthday on one protracted belch...
...year-old Laporte, like Trudeau a French-Canadian and an opponent of the Quebec separatist movement, stunned the nation. Mail and phone calls flooding into Ottawa ran 97% in favor of the Prime Minister's tough stance. Some 2,000 Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to sing the national anthem, O Canada; the House of Commons approved the invocation of the War Measures Act by an overwhelming 190-16 margin...