Word: singings
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...procession down the aisle of the Denver church would have done any Episcopal congregation proud. The grand hymn Allelujiah! Sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne pealed out, and some 50 clerics approached the altar in white robes and red stoles. A circle of clergy laid hands on the head of Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum, 44, a priest from South Carolina. When Barnum arose, he was a much changed man. For one thing, he was a bishop. But not of the Episcopal Church USA, whose collar he had worn for 14 years. He was now a missionary...
Lucinda Williams is a righteous singer. The sound of her voice is so overwhelming and so moving that she could sing the phone book and probably give it meaning. But she comes up with extraordinary words for that voice to sing--deceptively simple words like back steps or hairdo. How do you use the word hairdo in a song and make it so poignant that it almost breaks your heart...
...more unexplored agonies of celebrity life is the sheer repetitiveness of it all. Eric Clapton has to keep playing Layla; Julia Roberts has to keep smiling. And author DAVID SEDARIS has to keep singing the Oscar Mayer wiener song in the voice of Billie Holiday. (He did it on air once and has never lived it down.) So when Sedaris, the only person to rise to prominence by recounting on the radio his experiences as an elf at Macy's, took to the road to promote his fifth book, Me Talk Pretty One Day, he started charging. That...
...poachers. "There's no difference between human babies and the orangutans," says Wiwiek, an open-faced 24-year-old surrogate mother dressed in her working clothes, a white jumpsuit and green rubber boots. "We have to feed them with a bottle, bathe them, put them in Pampers and sing them to sleep. It feels like taking care of one of your...
...time around, the easy listening kitsch of Moon Safari has been retired in favor of a dark machine-age psychedelia, undercut with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. The opening track Electronic Performers sets the tone: amid distorted guitars, orchestral flourishes and spectral choirs, disembodied robot voices sing of love and desire...