Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand in my ticket and get my locker key I'd have to go in search of one of these women; they were forever making and drinking cups of tea. One of the boys would move his head an inch or two in the direction of the staffroom and sing out, "Bridget, finish your...
...Antoine de Saint Exupery's fairy tale, The Little Prince. The book is about a "little man" who convinces a pilot downed in the desert that life is worth living. The lure dangled before Sinatra is the pilot's role, a substantial salary and the chance to sing half a dozen songs written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. If Sinatra says yes, Paramount Pictures plans to release The Little Prince next Easter...
...songs of Cole Porter, George Gershwin or Jerome Kern are all very well. But what man does not believe in his heart that the songs he makes up and sings to himself are best of all? Most men do just that: make them up and sing them to themselves. Not Bob Friedman of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Bob is passionate enough about his ditties to dream of taking over a commercial recording studio, bringing in top name musicians, and cutting an LP to give to 1,000 or so of his best friends and relatives. As the retired millionaire president...
...occurs as Minnelli and York kiss and begin to make love while the camera threatens to fade into the phoney discreteness of a rain-soaked window. Suddenly, the rain becomes the smokey white light of the cabaret and Miss Minnelli's head returns to view as she begins to sing "Maybe This Time," a lovely Judy Garland type song that meshes perfectly with the previous scene. In achieving a balanced counterpoint between movie "reality" and movie "artifice," Cabaret saves itself from the cloying theatricality that mars most movie musicals...
...Boys Choir joined the Glee Club for the Thomas Weelkes When David Heard. The Choir, prepared by Theodore Marier, is an impressive group. They are weak at the beginning of pieces, though, with a noticeable tendency to whine out the first notes, belying their true ability. When they sing into the upper range, they produce a sound absolutely unearthly--a sound no female voice could match. Dissonances in the soprano register are far more jarring than the same notes in the tenor or bass, and this effect was used advantageously in the Weelkes...