Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nothing is wrong with Duke," he added yesterday. "I can sing Dixie, and Duke has a beautiful campus...
...American popular-music industry was having its annual pageant. The program was about to end. Joan Baez walked onstage unannounced. As if she were lost in time, Baez driftingly began to sing Bob Dylan's anthem: "How many roads must a man walk down,/ Before you call him a man .../ The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,/ The answer is blowin' in the wind...
Traditionally, it is couples, not generations, that have their songs. Rick and Ilsa would put themselves in a trance by getting Sam to sing As Time Goes By in Casablanca. Sometimes we have more than one special song, or a different song for a different mate or a different archaeological layer of our lives...
Among the Tuvinian people of the Soviet Union, an individual can sing two melodies simultaneously. That has wonderful possibilities. Might one cross in the Tuvinian mind two simultaneous numbers, like, say, Bing Crosby's Mississippi Mud ("It's a treat to beat your feet.. .") with Rock the Casbah by the Clash? Would the Tuvinian stay sane if that happened...
Music is the way that our memories sing to us across time. The loveliest quality of music involves its modulation upon the theme of time. Songs, playing in the mind, become the subtlest shuttles across years...