Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...80th-birthday celebration was televised. His wife Barbara stayed close. Friends and luminaries from across the generations paid their respects. Bruce Springsteen showed up, singing Angel Eyes as one Jersey boy to another. Bob Dylan performed his own song, Restless Farewell, and said, looking down from the stage at Sinatra, "Happy birthday, Mr. Frank." It was homage of a high order. The room was heavy with talent that night, but Sinatra contented himself with showing his appreciation by applauding them all. Not so many years before, he would have led them. Showed them all how the Chairman does...
...next act, "Urbanization," opens with a disturbingly cheerful number called "The Lynching Blues," in which the company happily dances to a song in which crimes for which slaves were lynched are listed. Migration to Chicago comes next, and with it, the astounding set and choreography of "Industrialization" and the tragedy of "The Chicago Riot Rag." Both Reynolds and 'da Voice (Thomas Silcott) display their versatility in "I Got the Beat/Dark Tower," with her as a glittery white-enrobed baby-voiced diva and him discussing all the big names who hung out in his club...
...mixed results. The four black men who shoot their middle fingers towards the taxis that refuse to give them rides at the end of "Taxi" win laugher and cheers from the audience, but at a cost of crassness. Also, in the very last number--a reprise of the opening song "Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk"--the cast stops tap-dancing at moments to clumsily imitate ballet as Silcott reads from a book in a faux British accent. The actions were mildly humorous, but seemed out-of-place--for a production that was supposed to be explaining...
When I hear Senator Hatch defending...lawyers of the Justice Department, I figure he has been listening to Sympathy for the Devil a little too much lately. There is another Rolling Stones song that describes what Microsoft does for its customers--a little hit called Satisfaction...[To everyone] who wants to stand between Microsoft and its customers, all I can say is, fellas, You Can't Always Get What You Want...
...PAUL SONG, V.P. of Sotheby's coin department: "The Italian 50,000-lira note, because of all the zeros and the portrait of Italian sculptor Bernini. The first time I visited Italy, I went to the Capitoline Museum and gave the guard a 50,000 note for 5,000 and was ripped...