Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a single "Amen" requires the sopranos to sing 22 notes, he has the other sections pause to savor the glorious sound that their voices will support. And always he implores, "Listen to each other. Listen for the blend...
Buswell, meanwhile, has not entered the social life of the choir. He hurries in late from an audition and rushes out again after the final "Amen." He has come here from New Hampshire, and he would be more comfortable with the simple liturgy of a New England Congregational church. What has really kept Buswell from fitting in, though, is his rich, resonant voice...
...Tipitapa, a town outside Managua where he has been imprisoned. "It was done for the dollar mainly." Would he do it again? "If somebody asked me to, I'd ask him if he had all his marbles." Does he feel he is paying for the "sins" of the U.S. ? "Amen. Amen." Surprisingly, many of the Nicaraguans who lingered outside the courtroom seemed sympathetic toward the hapless American. Said one ; schoolteacher, who waited to catch a glimpse of Hasenfus and his wife Sally: "This is not their place. They should go home." The message, if not the tone, was one that...
...Western Europe. If there is a threat of war in Europe, in Brandt's opinion, it stems from the presence of U.S. nuclear weapons in West Germany. As Brandt noted in his keynote speech last week, "the interests of our people are not served by people who say 'amen' when Washington prays...
...Beach's Fashion Island mall, is a marble-floored enclave of jewelry and apparel shops, with an entire ground level given over to gourmet markets and eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month...