Word: sings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cubist compositions and a Dietrichish blond in a party hat. The amazing Midnight Revue (G.D.R., 1962) is a comically cynical parable about the difficulty of making a musical when your producer is not Arthur Freed but a pack of philistine bureaucrats. We can't approve your film, the apparatchiks sing...
...biggest obstacle is cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites...
...inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...
...reason for everything" and "What's the point of OK soda? Well, what's the point of anything?" The nine-city campaign fizzled. And the company that a quarter-century ago had celebrated the baby boom with the jingle, "I'd like to teach the world to sing," killed the product. Meanwhile, a grunge-themed Subaru campaign that told viewers its cars were "like punk rock" fell flat, and Converse was surprised to find that Gen Xers were put off by a spot showing an All Star-shod youth spray-painting his name on a building...
...think about being better," Jones added. "If you do that, then others will be sure to sing your praises...