Word: veilings
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...their new album, the Chieftains called in a few: Mick Jagger, Sting, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Mark Knopfler, Marianne Faithfull. The result is The Long Black Veil, which after only five weeks in release has become the band's first gold record (500,000 copies). Moloney, 56, may not have smelled gold, or cared if he did. "Who knows how these things will go?" he says, taking a rare breather in a 20-city U.S. tour that includes a St. Patrick's Day concert at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall. "But we had so much fun doing...
...Long Black Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save...
Though "The Boys of St. Vincent" is not an easy movie to watch, it explores issues which have long been covered by a veil of tightlipped silence. Because of the reality embedded in these uncomfortable and perverse themes, the film encountered a long journey of censorship difficulties with Canadian television. After garnering both widespread praise for its honest portrayal of corruption in the Catholic Church, as well as criticism from those who saw the film as an affront to the Church's authority, this powerfully chilling drama-documentary has landed at the Museum of Fine Arts. With recent talk...
...will stay engaged and remain an influence, but ((her role)) will be more informal. She won't be a point person on a given policy." The difference in her role, stresses the official, is one of "approach" and not intensity. "She's not going to start talking through a veil," says Planned Parenthood's Ann Lewis, a friend of Mrs. Clinton...
...system is good; our attitudes need readjustment. The political healing of America must be a subtle thing that comes voluntarily and from within us. People must decide that our society is something worth spending time on, and must then discard the easy veil of cynicism and take a deeper look at matter...