Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway's geezer audience. The Rocky Horror Show lasted less than a month in 1975. And Chess was a 1988 Broadway flop, though Rice and the composers from the pop group ABBA wrote a spectacularly varied and vigorous score that included One Night in Bangkok, the last show tune to make...
...could say mean things without sounding mean -- sometimes without sounding as if he meant them or knew what they meant -- was the proof of Vidal's theory. Bob Roberts is the next step. He sings jolly hate songs as his parents sang Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (a tune that Robbins' father Gil made famous as a member of the '60s folk group the Highwaymen). Bob Roberts is an anti-Bob Dylan; the anthem of this rebel conservative is Times Are Changin' Back...
...Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself and a King Curtis tune called Potatoe Chips (Dan Quayle take note...
...Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer exists (a dance hall in Bethesda, Maryland). The new album's title tune sounds like a come-on to a quick affair until you listen to the verse: a poignant flashback of first love, first loss. Carpenter writes elegies for lives gone sour and places sorely missed. In these songs, love is - what we used...
While most ushers said the thrill of participating in the events made the sacrifice of time and energy worthwhile, a few whistled a more patriotic tune...