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...SIXTEEN DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Far From Home | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

Personality will be important too. Says Mazda Spokesman James Gill: "We'll be looking for evidence of an individual's ability to participate in a team environment." So far, Mazda has said nothing about testing applicants' ability to sing the company song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Ivy League Blue Collars | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...march winds past the White House--symbol of oppression. The marchers begin to sing something about Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and garbage heaps in back alleys. Some women slam down red-painted coat hangers on the pavement. There is a huge pile of twisted wire in front of the White House...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: On the March in Washington | 3/18/1986 | See Source »

...Everlys were born in Kentucky, where Father Ike was, in the words of his younger son, "a truly unrecognized genius. He taught us everything we know, how to play and how to sing." (One of the greatest of all Everly records is Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a 1958 album of country songs that shows the brothers may have strayed from tradition but always stayed close to their roots.) Phil and Don were both still in their teens when they hit big in 1957 with Bye Bye Love, and the hot singles and concert tours that followed for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Everly Brothers in Arms | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...commercially, were beginning to put more distance between themselves as well. Personally, their lives seemed like a series of wrong turns. Phil put two marriages behind him, Don three. Professionally, they recorded on their own after the split, but there was no spirit in any of that music. "Brothers sing differently," Don says. "We sing as one person. That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Everly Brothers in Arms | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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