Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE IS AN appealingly child-like simplicity to Brown's staging of Gondoliers. Soloists step to the front of the stage, sing their piece and step back. In the large dance numbers that fill the stage, the cast generally pairs off and engages in minimal movements to the rhythm of the music: clapping hands, doing a little tango, skipping in a circle...
...CANADIAN AUTHOR Margaret Atwood about the critical contention most frequently leveled at her five novels--that they "hate men"--and she will acrew her aristocratic features into a grimace, primly fold her blue-veined hands, and lunch sing-song into what is clearly an oft-repeated litany...
...today. Ware employs 25 architects and draftsmen and designs about 20 churches a year, three times as many as five years ago. "Our clients are excited about the challenge of building a church and attracting more people," says Cooper. "Nowadays, congregations want to participate actively in the liturgy-to sing more, to move more, to celebrate. They don't want spaces that confine them merely to listening to the pulpit and organ. They want spaces that give them a sense of community and freedom...
...Yamit, where 1,000 families lived until recently, a group of settlers gathered around a bonfire one night last week to sing, dance and, in the words of one resident, recapture "the special atmosphere that prevailed here for so many years." One settler, a Soviet immigrant, cried, "Our Prime Minister is a traitor, our Defense Minister is committing treason!" In the main square, once known for its clean, green landscaping, graffiti had appeared on the walls: "No to exile and wandering, yes to fatherland and freedom." Sand dunes, pushed by the wind, were already attacking the town from all sides...
...dramatically wheeled out from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though...