Word: veils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay or add cost to this 40-year project. The time has come to cease revisionism. The memorial's purpose is to provide a historical retrospective...
...house, but causing no casualties. On March 10, an attack jet accidentally fired a missile that narrowly missed a nuclear power plant south of Moscow. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says many more foul-ups go unreported because Russian defense and space programs still operate under the old Soviet veil of secrecy. "The Russian armed forces are undermanned, under-maintained, under-funded, and have an extremely low morale," says Nelan. "There are just accidents waiting to happen...
...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...
...everyone loves the Chieftains. Almost. "The diehards don't like us," Moloney says. "But with The Long Black Veil we've made a million more friends than we've lost. We are not going off our rocker. And we are not going to become rockers." Moloney hopes to go in a different direction. "If I can only find some quiet time, I want to write the symphonic music I've been dreaming about since I was a child." His face is illuminated with delight as he says this. It beams again when he offers this innocent credo: "The great leaders...