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...ethereal as a national soccer idiom may be by nature impossible defend in scientific terms, it nonetheless shaped the sensibilities of fans for generations. Whenever the fans of a lowly English outfit such as Bristol Rovers see their players exhibit a flash of uncharacteristic individual skill or imagination, they sing "Brazil, it's just like watching Brazil...
...when the conversation turned naturally to Vietnam, Edwards could only listen respectfully to the reminiscences of men with lined faces and battle scars. After dinner, Yarrow grabbed a guitar and started a sing-along of his old standards like This Land Is Your Land and If I Had a Hammer, and the potential for embarrassment was high. But Elizabeth knew all the words, and Cleland chimed in with special intensity. When pressed by the table to demonstrate his developing guitar skills, Kerry demurred, and everyone walked away with the picture of a man confident of his instincts...
...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...