Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOTOWN'S IN L.A. NOW. And the Motown acts which still skip around the country deliver performances which are mere shadows of the steamy Motown era. The Four Tops, wearing matching but noticeably larger suits, now sing only a medley of their half-dozen super hits, apparently lacking the stamina to bring the house down with full versions of "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" and "Reach Out I'll Be There...
...Gnarled olive trees cling to the arid slopes, and oxen and donkeys plow the terraced hillsides, much as they did when Jesus walked the paths of Palestine. In the evenings, women still gather at the village well to fill their earthen jugs, while in the thorny Judean hills, shepherds sing the same melancholy songs their ancestors did generations before...
Someone on cellblock B struck a five-string banjo and began to sing: 'I got those cellblock blues/ I'm feeling blue all the time/ I got those cellblock blues/ Fenced in by walls I can't climb. . .' He was good. The voice and the banjo were loud, clear and true, and brought into that border country the fact that it was a late summer afternoon all over that part of the world. Out the window he could see some underwear and fatigues hung out to dry. They moved in the breeze as if this movement...
...need prayers in our schools. If it is all right to pledge allegiance to a nation under God and sing God Bless America, why not a simple daily prayer? In starting its day, Congress asks for God's help. Surely it cannot be wrong for our children to do the same thing...
...husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth and Judith, would usually opt to lead family sing-alongs or recite poems. Not James, the serious middle child. "Jim," remembers his mother, "would like to make speeches." Today? "He has high ideals," she says, "and doesn't deviate an inch...