Word: singed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Talk about loss of creative control: Brock is packaged as the "Balladeer of the Middle Class" and pressed into service writing songs about ordinary family life. Can't sing? No problem. After coaching by voice teachers, physical fitness instructors, and media handlers, Brock can not only sing but conduct himself impeccably on talk shows and fill Radio City Music Hall. His books sell by the millions, and Brock, slightly dazed, is more or less content...
That dourness seems to change as soon as Popov, 21, hits the water. "While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind," he says. His career is following an upbeat tune. An avid admirer of Mark Spitz, the Russian youth won the Soviet junior championship as a backstroker at 14. Since 1990, when his coach persuaded him to switch to freestyle, he has been nearly unbeatable. He has defeated his main rival, Matt Biondi, in their last six meetings. "At first I thought that he didn't take me seriously," says the younger swimmer. But Biondi takes him seriously...
...What kind of singer are you?" the office assistant at Sun Records inquired of the 18-year-old in 1953 as label boss Sam Phillips set up the disk-cutting machine in the other room. "I sing all kinds," he answered. "Who do you sound like?" she persisted. "I don't sound like nobody...
Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...speculation. But in 1992 a new sort of hero set a bonfire to those vanities. This spring 470 coal miners arrived in Madrid after marching more than 300 miles from Leon in the north to protest layoffs. Villagers on the harsh Castillian plateau turned out to applaud and even sing to them; television stations filmed the blisters on their feet. "If they import Polish coal, our valley will die," said Eugenio Carpintero, 32, swigging wine from a leather pouch on a blustery afternoon. Outside the Guadarrama Hospital, nurses and patients cheered, "Viva los mineros...