Word: singed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bared torsos and an occasional semi-risque hip movement. Even Elvis Presley in his prime 4 1/2 decades ago was lewder. The song titles are self-explanatory: I Just Wanna Be with You, I Need Love, I'll Never Break Your Heart. Once in a while a kid may sing that he wants to be "your lover," but it's all within the realm of I Want to Hold Your Hand. As always, the groups are selling themselves as training boyfriends--sexy, crushable, but no Usher, say, who might use a swear word now and then or want...
...thought you'd heard the last of Ken Starr, now that the impeachment operatic drama has moved to the Senate? Think again. Starr's cameo appearance to get Monica Lewinsky to sing on behalf of House prosecutors was the first hint that he's not yet through with the show. Tuesday Starr obtained a federal court's permission to pursue presidential friend Webster Hubbell on tax evasion charges in connection with Whitewater. Add to Starr's program a contempt case against ex-Whitewater partner Susan McDougal and an obstruction of justice case against Julie Steele for having allegedly lied...
...best dancers, interestingly, have a ballet background. Desmond Rich-ardson, formerly with Alvin Ailey and now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, tears up the joint in Percussion 4, while Elizabeth Parkinson, an ex-Joffrey ballerina with legs as long as War and Peace, is volcanically sexy in Sing, Sing, Sing. But the Broadway gypsies are just as satisfying, especially Jane Lanier and Scott Wise, who bring welcome warmth to Fosse without compromising its essential tough mindedness...
...course, impossible to know what Du Pre, by all accounts a fun-loving woman with a gift for mimicry, would think of all this. Although the family had its roots in the Channel isles, Du Pre grew up in London. By the age of 18 months, she could sing in tune. Her sister Hilary was a flutist who was talented but could not compete with the young prodigy, who practiced little and memorized easily. "Whatever I tried to do, she always did much better," writes Hilary...
...final scene is its saddest and wisest. On Delacroix Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...