Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oleg Gazmanov, 42, hopes to woo Russian voters with his soulful music. The hip-swiveling pop star is running for parliament next month on the Russian Democratic Reform Movement ticket and believes his sexy image and chart-topping hits will attract "ordinary people" who otherwise might not vote. "I sing in order to unite people," he says. "I see it as my civic duty to be a candidate...
...next day's papers. But just three minutes before the end of the encounter, a stymied and annoyed Perot leaned into the camera and confided, "The whole House of Representatives is running in 1994, and a third of the Senate. We've got a little song we sing: 'We remember in November when we step into that little booth.' " Moderator Larry King, realizing that Perot seemed to be making explicit what had previously been veiled, asked whether he was saying he would try to defeat Representatives who voted for NAFTA. The people would do so, replied Perot. "There...
...powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying. Each new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical seems like an ice show putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...backlash against cloning, however, shows that such distinctions are less easily made by the general public. This is a telling sing of the state of modern science. As science more and more specialized, cutting-edge research recedes ever further from the understanding of the average person. Science seems to be growing ever more powerful and yet we have less and less understanding, and thus control...
...coming musicians. For students over 21, Toad's offers a party scene more favorable than that found in the crowded suites of under grads. Yale alumni recall that Cindi Lauper, among others, got her start here. In the 70's she was so bad, they say, that she would sing the three or four songs in her repertoire, then apologize, then repeat. Since Cindy, a few big-time bands have played at Toad's. The Rolling Stones were in town just a few years...