Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing sacred or familial about the book's characters. Doctors, architects, models, painters and intellectuals, they inhabit the chic world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...
...Toscanini heard her sing and told her, "A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years...
...refused to sing concerts where blacks were not allowed to sit in every part of the auditorium--front as well as back--although she would sing even if they were still kept separate from the rest of the audience...
...scenes of the reprisals following the coup make it quite clear the junta will not return the government to its owners. In a stadium filled with students who resisted the army takeover, Victor Jarre, a young folksinger, is beaten to death, but he continues to sing "Venceremos"--we will win--until he is killed. Bodies floating in a river, bodies loaded on a truck--any U.P. supporters who survived did so by luck...
FSSGB Group Sing--Interfaith Building...