Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...socialist Korea, and red, appropriately, seems to be the city's favorite color. There is red in the paint freshly applied to the showcase capital, as well as in the cherry and plum trees that fill the parks and line the streets. "Oh, our Pyongyang," sings the chorus in one revolutionary opera. "Beautiful is the red socialist capital. With boundless joy we have come to the Pyongyang we have always longed for. Our leader is here in the revolutionary capital, which is the fountainhead of all our happiness...
...sadness goes with the smell of coffee and fresh biscuits at the morning mail call these days as the first year draws to an end. When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color...
Cambridge Slavic Chorus--Eastern European folk music, Sanders Theater...
...Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...
...Teleprompter cable systems. Showtime does not offer sports; it concentrates on movies and entertainment specials, many for an older audience attuned to country and western music. But it is trying more adventurous approaches too. In March it treated viewers to a peek at the topless chorus girls of the Folies Bergere in Paris (a similar show had been on HBO earlier). Its other offerings have included What's Up, America?, a magazine-type show taking looks at Americana (a honeymoon hotel, an erotic bakery), and specials featuring Lola Falana, Engelbert Humperdinck and Debbie Reynolds...