Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insinuation that he was somehow unpatriotic because he had aligned himself with the poor and the oppressed in their struggle against injustice. "I have sung in hobo jungles, I have sung for the Rockefellers," Seeger told the committee, "and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody...
...ours has. One finds oneself restraining a cynical snicker at Seeger's message, which, in jaded moments, seems to be saying no more than. "We are all very nice people, and we all love each other, and, yes, there are some bad people, but if we join hands and sing real loud, we can defeat them and create a utopia where we will play with our children and dance with each other...
...play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical comedy stars (he was the original Alexander Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing) when he made this movie and his appeal is immediately self-evident. The next night at the Welles, if you're not dehydrated, you can find Wuthering Heights. I took a course last year on the Novel and the Cinema, one of those hybrid classes which inevitably slights both sets...
...peak. Yet, reversing the ambition of those opera singers who long to perform in nightclubs, Flack yearned for her classical roots. "One of the hassles of being a black female musician," she says, "is that people are always backing you into a corner and telling you to sing soul. I'm a serious artist. I feel a kinship with people like Arthur Rubinstein and Glenn Gould. If I can't play Bartok when I want to play...
...others have done," he said testily in reply to a suggestion that his songs sounded something like Randy Newman's. "In 1970 it was Elton John, in '71 Laura Nyro. And the last few years Randy Newman. And the only thing we have in common is that we all sing and play the piano." Lyon says his music has been influenced very little by white rock 'n' roll except for The Beatles, and that theater music, soul and his three years as a cantor have left more of an imprint on his songs...