Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thee I sing, Baby...
...Sing, Goddess, of Architect Manolis Korres, 35, and the Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments, scientists from many nations gathered in Athens, casting off fear as before a great battle, to plan restoration of the most beautiful wonder of the ancient world: the marble Parthenon. That hilltop temple of Zeus' daughter, Athena the Virgin (Athena Parthenos), has for 2,400 years brought glory to Phidias, sculptor of its fluted columns, and to farseeing Pericles, and to all the Hellenes...
...than 100,000 people gathered around a rain-slicked outdoor stage to hear Singer Robert Charlebois. Halfway through a chorus of Je veux de l'amour (I want love), he suddenly stopped and told the crowd, "This song has one minute to go, but I won't sing it. I will dedicate it to those 269 souls who are absent today." His words drew loud cheers, along with a smattering of catcalls...
...working on an album that Ronstadt now thinks of as "an expensive rehearsal session. The tracks weren't right, the way they were recorded wasn't right, the way I sang them wasn't right. What's New and Good-bye I couldn't sing at all. But I could sing them in the shower, so I knew there was some thing wrong with the arrangements." She abandoned the record ("Doing that killed me") and instead made Get Closer, a fine, smooth and entirely typical Ronstadt album that has sold under her recent platinum-record...
...ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: 'Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last...