Word: singings
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...like nudity. I like musicals. So what, I figured, could be better than a combination of the two, assuming Nathan Lane wasn't involved? You can imagine my dismay in discovering that not only does the movie Moulin Rouge contain absolutely no nudity but the characters sing unmusical rock songs like Up Where You Belong and Smells Like Teen Spirit. I hadn't felt this disappointed since learning that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a children's movie...
...there's any musical link among the three, it's an emphasis on melody--at least compared with the testosterone-drenched, jock-rock chants of Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. And that may help lure pop kids. "There's a lot more stuff that everybody can sing along to, that girls can take home and listen and sing to, as well as those guys hitting their heads on the wall," says Elektra A&R associate Jill Katona. But if the three don't make a movement, they may represent the desire for one, and a first taste of things...
...about what? Certainly not about a dolphin's natural habitat. It is not natural for a dolphin to swim in circles in a man-made tank, exposed to loud music; shallow, chemically treated water; and humans. It is not natural for a hungry dolphin to play basketball, tail-walk, sing or dance just to get a dead fish. Buying a ticket to see or play with a captive dolphin is what increases the demand for their capture and subsequently their death. And don't get me started about the people who hop on them for a ride around a pool...
...academic New Year. It is not the Christian New Year or the Y2K New Year. It is not the Chinese New Year. It is not the fiscal New Year. I, bewildered, replied in kind and my friends and I went our way, up to the balcony to sing, where we offered our official greeting to the President, a 20-second Latin chorus in his praise that the Glee Club is supposed to sing whenever the president comes into view. Tradition...
...audience in Sanders Theatre, which filled the mezzanine and spilled over into the balcony, also heard the Commencement Choir sing two anthems and later joined in a rendition of the College hymn, “Fair Harvard,” to close the ceremony...