Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congestion, which is certain to grow worse in the coming decade, is hampering Americans' cherished mobility and changing the way they travel and do business. Instead of boasting I Get Around, the tune they are wailing nowadays is Don't Get Around Much Anymore. Consider...
Doug is waiting the next day at his church, a low-slung building the size of a corner gas station, where there's an organ and a clunky, slightly out-of- tune piano. It's a Saturday. Several women are moving around in the kitchen; the small, bare chapel is deserted. Walter plays a quick phrase on the piano and sings the lyric faintly for Doug, and Doug (who does not read music) sends it booming back. Then again, with an altered stress...
South Korea is ready for the big party. Seoul is bedecked with flags and banners that flutter their welcome in a gentle summer breeze. Children are rehearsing spirited songs. The bands have been tuning up for months. Soon the guests from 161 countries will be arriving: 250,000 tourists, 14,000 journalists and, most important, 13,000 athletes and sports officials. A global television audience of more than 1 billion people will tune in as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad get under...
...compete with the memory of a legend, yet the revivers of Ain't Misbehavin' have set themselves that task twice over. Not only do they seek to match the exuberant spirit of Pianist-Songwriter Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, whose 1920s and '30s Harlem jazz inspired the pell-mell 31-tune revue, but they also contend with the joyous memory of the 1978 debut staging, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, made a star of Nell Carter, and ran almost four years before becoming an Emmy-winning NBC special. Of course, the producers of this daring venture have...
...Republicans expropriated not only themes but also a melody. At the close of Reagan's sentimental farewell, the Superdome band struck up a spirited rendition of a familiar song: Happy Days Are Here Again. That diehard Democratic anthem, F.D.R.'s signature tune, had been handed down to such Democratic nominees as Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Walter Mondale. But since Democrats of late have had little to be cheerful about, the tune was not heard in Atlanta. Manny Harmon, the Los Angeles bandleader who has played at Republican Conventions since 1956, took note and helped make the decision...