Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imported sects like the Unification Church have seen an opening there. Homegrown groups have also sprung up. One surrounds a would-be messiah named Vissarion. With his flowing dark hair, wispy beard and a sing-song voice full of aphorisms, he has managed to attract about 5,000 followers to his City of the Sun. Naturally it's in Siberia, near the isolated town of Minusinsk. According to reports in the Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide...
...musical Runaways, Swados boasts a prolific and diverse career on Broadway and off-Broadway. She has also toured, written two novels and non-fiction works and taught at New York University. Swados claims to have been interested in musical theater ever since she wrote her first song at five and her first musical in the second grade. As the next endeavor in her "moment-to-moment, improvisational life," Swados chose to come to Harvard because "it was a group of young people who wanted to explore the theater in a serious...
...Shakur, one of the West Coast's most charismatic and popular gangsta rappers, was slain in a similar drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Now Wallace, one of the East Coast's biggest rap stars, is dead too. Like Shakur, Biggie had foretold his own demise. On the dirgelike song You're Nobody, from his forthcoming CD, he raps, "You're nobody/ Till somebody kills...
...often based on such themes--intrigue, gangland camaraderie, killers' lying in wait. On his new album he even raps about being monitored by the feds. But while in interviews he proudly touted his felonious past, his lyrics sometimes betrayed a loathing for the lawless life-style. On the song Somebody's Gotta Die from his new CD, he hunts down a rival only to discover, as he shoots the man, that his victim is holding a child. (Wallace had two children of his own.) The rapper once told Peter Spirer, director of the new hip-hop documentary Rhyme & Reason, that...
...listen to the song of a mockingbird amid the pear blossoms...