Word: singer
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...correctly answered Singer Tina Turner, chances are you have been playing Rise 'n fly, a best-selling new board game that gives a short course in black history. More than 30,000 copies have been sold since the $29.95 game reached store shelves last December, and retailers such as Macy's in New York City and Kiddie World in Wilmington, Del., are struggling to keep it in stock...
Whenever a young Bradbury hero appears, a sideshow of grotesques cannot be far away. It is peopled by a "canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field...
They work so well because their creator never looks at them with the eyes of a sociologist or a folk singer. He remains, despite whitening hair and expanding waistline, despite a popularity that has sold 40 million books in 20 countries, that eager high school senior with the chipmunk grin who still contemplates the world as if he were seeing it for the first time. "My four daughters are grown up," he says, "and I'm a grandfather three times. But I'm still one of those oversize kids who say Gee whiz! I say it at least twice...
...original Mosaic was published from 1960 to 1972, and featured articles by writers such as Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps, and New Republic publisher Martin Peretz, said Sarai Brachman '88, who is organizing the magazine's revival...
Though the role might have winded any singer, Luciano Pavarotti easily sustained the ringing high notes, the plaintive appoggiaturas, the hummingbird runs and trills. Not his own, but those of 150 hopeful young singers. Bespectacled and wrapped in a colorful shawl, the celebrated tenor spent the past two weeks judging the finals of the second Opera Company of Philadelphia/ Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. "If you win this competition," said Pavarotti at the outset, "it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it doesn't mean you will not have a career." Still, the expansive...