Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member all-male chorus has been invited to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremonies of "Rendezvous '87," a round-robin hockey tournament in Quebec which pits American and Canadian all-stars against one another and the Soviet Union's national hockey team...
...They are providing everything for us and we really don't have to work that hard," Hatzis said. "All we have to do is sing a unison chorus of the national anthem...
What happens, of course, is little old Michael's got to dance and sing the Evil Queen and her whip-cracking tinpan entourage into an early grave. And the forces of Music and Light oblige him, transforming Huston into a doe-eyed Greek goddess. It's a happy ending, sure. But with that mayonnaise-in-her-veins look of Nirvana on her kisser, you kinda sorta miss the spitting-spider Evil Queen...
There has, of course, been progress. Americans of middle age can still remember when blacks had to move to the back of the bus as it crossed the border from Washington into the Virginia suburbs, when Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night...
...believability by--surprise, surprise--Mia Farrow. Even if Allen hadn't been shacking up with her, he would have been wise to cast her. Since he no longer sleeps with Diane Keaton, though, he has no excuse for giving her an entire scene in which she does nothing but sing...