Word: singings
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...speechwriter had not drafted a concession speech was his own superstition that it was bad luck: write it, and he'll have to give it. True believers were increasingly isolated. "It's a small, closeted group," cracked one at midweek. "We meet in the basement, do our rituals and sing songs...
Despite increased security over recent months, the student demonstrators were allowed inside Mass. Hall. Once inside, they left their cookies with secretary Janice Braxton and proceeded to sing "Workers' Wonderland," a carol to the tune of "Winter Wonderland...
...Poets and playwrights wrote of insecurity. Pop singers may have (justifiably) felt it. But they certainly didn't sing about it to their fans. Lennon did. "Every now and then I feel so insecure," he sang in "Help!" He also admitted to jealousy, suicidal depression and (in "Cold Turkey") heroin addiction...
...such an unsettling time, I felt justified in writing a song," recalls Badu. "When I sat down to write it, I had no idea what I would say. Now I feel relieved about it every time I sing it. I feel like it's his words, coming through...
...funny." It is precisely such mundane thinking that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit of truth in there too. Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...