Word: singeing
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...been a favored contender for individual honors in these Olympics. Julianne McNamara is the best there is on the uneven bars. Her line is as perfect as a ballerina's, and she flows so lightly from one bar to the next, one movement to another, that the bars sing for her. She got a 10 to prove it. On the floor exercise, she won another perfect mark with choreography in which she seemed to levitate...
DIED. Fred Waring, 84, band and chorus leader known as "the man who taught America to sing," whose group, the Pennsylvanians, sustained its sweet, soothing blend of voices and instruments through more than six decades of road tours, radio, television and movie appearances and more than 2,000 recordings; after a stroke; in Danville, Pa. A Penn State engineering student who was rejected by the college glee club, he formed his first band (a jazz quartet) in 1917, eventually adding voices and more instruments. Between its 1933 debut and 1949, it presented one of radio's most popular shows...
...rend their clothes. When the General once again refuses an order to take the field on behalf of king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before the blinded General; frightened, the asylum's inmates kill him, while ghosts of the liberated dead sing a hymn to the revolution: "We stand by the river./ If the water is deep we will swim./ If it is too fast we will build boats./ We will stand on the other side./ We have learned to march so well/ That we cannot drown...
...doing history here," said Construction Worker Eric Crawford. "It's something to tell your children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show the 200 white homing pigeons that circled around toward...
Although recognizing that few black athletes completely conquer the commercial barriers, particularly on television, Douglas extravagantly figures, "Carl Lewis will be as big as Michael Jackson." Lewis mulls it over and says, "Physically, definitely. I can't sing as well as he does, and I don't think he can run as fast as I do, so I don't fear him, and there's no reason for him to fear me." He laughs, but then he adds seriously, "When you have money, you have a lot of freedom. It's no big deal, but I understand its value." Regarding...