Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MAGIC JOHNSON, whose famous friends and sweet nature couldn't make up for his dread of the camera, has been axed after nine weeks. He was good about it but still not funny. "You know what they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings," he said on Thursday night's show. "Well, she's gonna have to sing tonight..." With that, a woman began to sing. Never mind, Magic, there's always...
Last year Seidenberg made $8.5 million in salary and bonus. Letters that spooled from the fax in his office at Bell Atlantic generally addressed him as "Dear Vice Chairman." For the past half decade, Seidenberg, 51, has been working to make that copper sing and dance with stuff no one could have dreamed of in 1966--video, for instance, or 3-D Web pages. He is also making that copper work closely with its successor: hair-thin fiber-optic cables that offer vastly expanded speed and capacity--which translates to consumer value and, he hopes, corporate profit. Seidenberg, who oversaw...
...Sidey's tribute to the Marine Corps Band on its 200th birthday [AMERICAN SCENE, July 20]. Oh, how I wish that the start of sports events would feature a recording of the national anthem by this band, or the Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW Dundee...
...contrast, most of Cale's songs were much older, coming from his '70s albums. Despite their age, though, the songs were new to a large portion of the audience and a surprised murmur spread through the crowd as Cale sat before his keyboard and began to sing Elvis's "Heartbreak Hotel" to his own classical composition. As one of the best classically trained musicians ever to play rock, Cale excels in playing his compositions...
Siouxsie and Cale took turns performing solo sets, sometimes collaborating on The Creatures' songs. At times Cale would emerge with a guitar to accompany the band for Siouxsie's singing; at times he would join them on the keyboard. Even more interestingly, Cale and Siouxsie sometimes took the stage together to sing, with Cale's deep voice reading off some of the lyrics and the vinyl priestess crooning the rest...