Word: singings
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...prowess justifies the metaphysical themes. "Cages" mostly takes place in an apartment building that Leo Sabarsky, a painter, has just moved into. There he meets Jonathan Rush, a secretive, Salman Rushdie-like writer whose latest book incites riots. Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect anything that he loves, giving them over to a mad doctor who dissects the objects, looking for their soul. The painter receives...
...life"). But while strumming away in one another's living rooms, they talked about entering a new phase of life, with husbands and kids (Maines has a son, 1; Robison is seven months pregnant) and adult responsibilities. The songs they wrote and other writers' songs they chose to sing were more serious than their earlier work. Emboldened by their stand against Sony, they decided to record the new tracks as an experiment. Musically, Maguire and Robison had grown up playing in bluegrass competitions, and they resolved to make a break with their old country sound and record in a more...
...Dixie Chicks will sing happy songs again, and they're even promising to make a rock record somewhere down the road. Whatever they do, they have decided to make the music they want to and trust that the market will follow. Hardly the act of three wusses...
...solo tour to $67.50 for the high-profile E Street reunion tour of 1999-2000. Now he has again raised ticket prices, this time to $75. There's irony in a "populist" performer squeezing his audience for larger and larger amounts of cash for the privilege of hearing him sing about how tough it is in a cruel world. KYLE MIZE Brownwood, Texas...
...United Methodist pastor and director of the Religion and Public Teaching Project, based in Indianapolis, Ind., concedes that segregation, whether voluntary or compulsory, seems at odds with religious ideals. But he argues that the outcome often justifies the practice, particularly in immigrant communities. "They preserve their tradition," Armstrong explains, "sing in their native language, eat the food of their own culture, [and are] with people who remember what their land looks like and who their people...