Word: sings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Sister Xavier, now an honorary colonel in the U.S. Army, and the girls of Clarke's Coffee House Theater were back on U.S.O. tour, this time a six-weeks-long foray through armed-forces camps in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and Iceland. The troupe is doing folk singing, modern-jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word...
...Hawaii (sociology), then spent five years as an Air Force pilot. "When I realized I'd never get to be a general," he says, "I resigned my commission and came home to run Honey's. Business was so bad that I began playing the electric organ and singing to get the customers to stay around for another 350 beer. I got them to sing with me, and pretty soon buiness picked...
...rate the title song represents the new Beatles, the Beatles who have utter control over their audience, who can make them cheer, laugh at an unseen sight gag, and, best of all, shut up. "You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us," sing the Beatles in one of the most obvious ironies of the album. Clearly they're thinking just the opposite, and have been for years. The song is a renunciation of their whole crowd-pleasing past, just as it is the realization of the artist's dream of total power over...
...fans love them. Judy also gets a breather by coaxing such professionals in the audience as Duke Ellington or Bea Lillie onto the stage. Finally, and inevitably, comes Over the Rainbow. Some nights when she is too drained, it is more croaked than crooned. "Stay here and sing" someone cries amid the shrieks and bravos. "Don't ever go away!" Later, when she emerges from the stage door, some 200 worshipers are waiting ?even if it is 2 a.m. They don't tear at her, though, as they might some other superstar. They reach out for Judy tenderly...
...ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, who have promised to sing a "wind corroboree" for good luck every day that Dame Pattie races...