Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about to sing to you You Were Meant For Me for Valentine's Day--you remember that sentimental old song--when I came across this passage in Alice McDermott's novel Charming Billy, where the narrator hypothesizes that her father might not be her father if her mother's first fiance hadn't been kept so long overseas in the Navy, thus giving her dad his chance with her. Here's what McDermott has to say about that: "Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over...
...Discovery Set ($150), which lets kids age 9 and up build elaborate creations like a moving robot that can follow a flashlight in the dark. Companies that couldn't think of anything original this year are reinventing old favorites. Microsoft's line of ActiMates Interactive Teletubbies ($60) speak and sing, and come with touch-sensitive color screens on the tummies, which display geometric shapes. Most perplexing is Tiger Electronics' new electronic yo-yo, the E-Yo ($15), which gives a digital readout of its average speed, distance traveled and total time in use. If this seems of little...
Sami: The Swedish language is very hard to sing in, very hard words...
...Persson. But Nina would have none of their adulation. Halfway into the show, one fratboy climbed onto the shoulders of his large friend and unrolled a sign beseeching, "NINA KISS ME." After ignoring him for several minutes, Persson took a break between songs to reply, conuettishly, "I saw your sing. I don't kiss people I don't know...
...Michael Rupert) and his Little Girl (Jenell Slack). The three groups of people--the WASPs in frilly white, of course; the Harlem natives in deep burgundies and blues; and the Jewish immigrants in black--face off against each other in a simple yet intensely symbolic dance routine as they sing about a mysterious and mesmerizing new form of music that is "Giving the nation a new syncopation," called--what else?--ragtime...