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...skins, which they shed. After crawling out of that wingless skin, which splits neatly down the back, the handsome adults sit quietly and visibly on tree trunks tentatively trying their new wings. Then they set out for a few weeks of courtship and mating. During those weeks the males sing, the paired couple reproduce and then they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Many Americans are frustrated crooners who sing in the shower and warble along with their Walkman tapes. But aside from belting out the national anthem with the crowd in the bleachers or cutting loose with the congregation on Sunday, most have been too shy or too sober to sing in public. Now thousands of closet Sinatras and Madonnas are publicly vocalizing, thanks to a nifty electronic device from Japan called the karaoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Song of Myself, on Tape | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...only shaped current American popular music, he changed it irrevocably. Baffled editorial writers and swamped reporters, trying to sort sense from the maelstrom of the late '60s and early '70s, would fall back on a famous refrain from Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man. Now don't all sing at once: "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Here's What's Happening, Mr. Jones | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Blacks are only 6 percent of the population at Harvard. They can't help but interact with the mainstream." Wilkins adds. For example, he says, BSA members serve on the board of directors of the Harvard Student Agencies, play on the tennis team, and sing in the Opportunes...

Author: By Michael E. Joachim, | Title: 'Excessive Ethnocentric Behavior is Dysfunctional' | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Harvard has scared me too. Too many Harvard experiences. I've been told. "You can't sing," or "I his isn't a poem," or "No, you don't want to do that." The other day I ran into an old acquaintance and had another Harvard experience. He asked me what I've done lately...

Author: By Naomt L. Pierce, | Title: The Harvard Experience | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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