Word: singed
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...inherits Nullah (Brandon Walters), an adorable child of mixed white and aboriginal blood, who needs her love but also needs the mystical wisdom of his grandfather (David Gulpilil), a sort of shaman, who stands about the outback, often on one leg, spouting gnomic wisdom (he has the ability to "sing" people he takes a shine to out of trouble). Along the way there are stampedes, fancy dress balls and the beginnings of World...
...apparatuses that boys had. It's no accident that Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott and any number of leading suffragists were raised in Quaker homes. As one Friends school catalog put it in 1864: "Girls, do not believe that you were created for nothing but to play, dance, sing, read novels and flirt ... You need not study medicine or law or become female ministers, or ever expect to become President of the United States; but be something more than mere dolls ... Cultivate your intellect and your heart, and prove to the world that 'all men and women are created...
...time out of time and a place / Of awe where we all can learn / To respect the power of nature / And the lesson that we learn’s / Jurassic Park!” The lyrics were printed on the programs, allowing the audience to sing along with the cast at the end of the play. The song was at once a parody, a tribute, and a chance for enthusiastic actors to show off for an enthusiastic crowd—just like the rest of this unconventional performance...
...wasn’t schmaltzy enough for you, how about “Dance ’Til We’re High?” “We will dance / Light up the sky / Bells will ring out for our love… We’ll sing till we fly together / We’ll dance ’til we’re high together.” This all sounds well and good. But when sung by Paul McCartney and backed by church bells and violins, it’s effectively the most saccharine thing...
...with the same beautiful woman, Erisbe (who is, of course, unavailable, having married an ancient, wealthy and powerful monarch). The young queen and her two suitors are backed by a cast that includes three Egyptian fortune-tellers, a page, a lady-in-waiting, and a king, all of whom sing lengthy solo arias and pose and mime animatedly. This is meant to be very much in tune with the Baroque style, which suggests the way deep emotion arises out of formal gesture. Performance in the very idiosyncratic vein of “Baroque” was in fact the subject...