Word: sung
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...convention was a hundred Fourth of July parades rolled into one, a pageant of family values and up-by-the-bootstraps success stories and patriotism, with silver confetti falling from the sky like diamonds and 60,000 balloons blown up by volunteers. Delegates heard The Star-Spangled Banner sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning...
Unfortunately, the rest of the production does not meet the uniformly high standard of the accompaniment. The major roles are well sung, but, apart from Paul Lincoln's effectively goofy Papageno, the characters do not reveal the depth of psychological development implicit in Mozart's music. Oliver Worthington brings to the role of Tamino a lovely voice but little more, and Ling Ning Xu's Sarastro is dignified but unprepossessing. Worst of all, the Queen of the Night (Maria Tegzes), who has a voice that stands up to the test of her role's legendary difficulties, completely fails to command...
...Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while at home...
...others say Bush should play to his foreign policy strengths, telling Americans that he wants to solidify the gains in Eastern Europe, stabilize the former Soviet Union, win a free-trade agreement with Mexico and keep foreign bullies like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and North Korea's Kim Il Sung in line. Said one disgusted campaign official last week: "This man brought peace to the world, but he's afraid to use his own playbook...
...late 1950 Kim Il Sung had been routed. Four months after his army invaded the South, the North Korean leader had fled his capital of Pyongyang as American-led U.N. forces pressed toward the border of the newborn People's Republic of China. Within a few weeks, though, Chinese "volunteers" poured into Korea and turned the tide of war, prolonging it for 2 1/2 years and keeping Kim's communist stronghold intact...