Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with her accompanist. When he tried to resign, saying "I probably don't know any songs you know," she shrugged, "Mr. President, anything you play, I know-however old." But when he broke into a stilted Home on the Range, she withered him with "I came here to sing a song, not to ride a horse." Finally, Pearlie Mae and President Richard Nixon harmonized. With 41 Governors and guests at the White House dinner last week, they chorused My Wild Irish Rose and God Bless America...
...stepped from a stage platform onto the stairs, the structure collapsed, sending her tumbling four feet to the floor. Hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder, face cuts and multiple bruises, Good Trouper Nilsson dismissed her injuries with "I did not hurt my teeth, which would have affected my ability to sing," and though in pain, appeared triumphantly on opening night. She also dismissed set-happy stage directors, who, she said, "think more elaborate sets will make opera better. But it's dangerous...
...prostitutes and thieves, all hungry though some of them are fat, all sharply etched and ornately dressed. Kevin Kline is a fine Macheath, and the rest of the cast is pretty uniformly good, too, although it's hard to understand a few of the actresses when they start to sing. John Gay, the friend of Pope and Swift who wrote the play, scattered popular ballads and songs through it like arias, with new and more appropriate lyrics, so that Macheath comments on his sentence to a variant of "Greensleeves...
Bound for Glory. Michael Cooney is one of the best contemporary singers of American music. Few know more about the songs they sing and few turn their knowledge into more memorable performances. He is a fine guitarist and banjo player, a splendid raconteur, and a light, engaging singer. The proceeds from this tribute to Woody Guthrie, which Cooney will narrate, will go to research on Huntington's Disease, which took Guthrie's life. The show should be a rare treat. Saturday, March 16 at the Brookline High School Auditorium...
LIBERALS have never much liked demonstrations. Most were willing to go down to Washington once a year during the Vietnam War, sing a few bars of "All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance" and then go back to their home communities. After the demonstration, or the "moratorium" as they prefered to call it, most liberals went back to their day to day routine. A few got active in congressional and senatorial campaigns or joined the McCarthy and McGovern crusades. However, very few went back to organize demonstrations on a local basis. Direct action tactics have usually been frowned...