Word: singings
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...teachers come earlier and work much later to prepare for the following day. Staff members plan and teach challenging yet creative academic courses and stay in close contact with individual students and their families. We cheer for students as they walk off the buses every morning, sing crazy songs in the cafeteria during lunch and dance onstage in front of the students during Community Meeting wearing mismatched costumes...
...Charles put on a performance that seemed designed to describe the course of his career. He sang selections from his collection of popular country-and-western songs ... It seemed embarrassingly clear that no white man could ever sing the songs his way ... there is no modern singer who has not learned something from him. His touches turn up in other singers' styles; his trademark phrases, such as 'What'd I say' and 'Don't you know now' and 'That's all right,' poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success ... Charles lives in a world of sounds...
...movements of other taurine body parts; another is making one of Ferny's friends, a sheep named Wiley, come to life. The work might be time consuming and repetitive, but Garud insists that it has its little pleasures. "It's a lot of fun getting Ferny to sing," he says...
...December's Phantom of the Opera movie, but busy Brit MINNIE DRIVER is grounded enough to know her budding music career hasn't prepared her to deliver pop arias. Driver, whose first album, a "super-lo-fi, Cowboy Junkies kind of thing," is due in October, doesn't sing in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. "It would have been ridiculously arrogant to believe I could pull it off without a lifetime of training," says the Good Will Hunting star, who appears with Gerard Butler as the Phantom. Besides, the role of Carlotta provides other outlets...
...damaged his career as an actor. After more than 50 films, he was getting no offers of good parts. By 1953 he was reduced to doing a nightclub routine in Las Vegas, where he introduced various singers and dancers and made apologetic jokes about his own inability to either sing or dance. Was the optimist discouraged? Hardly. He was soon offered a new job that was to change his whole life. For $125,000 a year, he would act as host and occasional star of a weekly television drama series for General Electric; for 10 weeks each year he would...