Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greg: And we listened to Juliana sing a song with her best friend of 15 years, Laura Powers...
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Go to events in Adams House in drag, and delight in extravagant striptease. Sing along to Madonna songs: Boys, wear those brassieres with pride; girls, damage those male oppressors with your cod-pieces. Don't let the solemnity of the outside world steel your heart when you can avoid it with such impunity...
...habit. For 25 years, Wynette has been one of country music's best habits. The 67-song CD set Tears of Fire offers a lot of fine down-home hits (Stand By Your Man, We're Not the Jet Set) and a little social history, so often does Wynette sing about the soul-scarred Southern woman. Some of her best songs (I Don't Wanna Play House, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Dear Daughters) are bedtime stories for a child from a ravaged home; they translate complex hurts into simple poetry. That could be a definition of country...
...designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which went for expenses...
...technique ultimately proved self-defeating. Without any explanantion, the audience's natural reaction was to disapprove of this demonstration. After all, these people had come to see a popular singer, albeit with a debatably melifluous voice. She was supposed to keep things simple and, believe it or not, just sing. These people didn't come to SNL studios to humor inexplicable political views...