Word: rooster
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...spare white church since my brother and I were small and hailed the bronze weathercock atop the steeple with “Cock-a-doodle-do, Rooster” every time we drove by. When it is lit up for the carol sing the windows glow yellow and the Rooster Church looks too perfect to be real, like a miniature church with a light bulb inside bought to accompany an electric train...
...What Child Is This?” rendered unrecognizeable by the warbling of a female vocalist. And I will try unsuccessfully to reconcile this Christmas carol with the Christmas carol of the same name and roughly the same tune that I have sung in the Rooster Church. It is a horrible shock, like recognizing the features of a grade school friend behind the heavy makeup of one of those young women who loiters in the mall food court. The worst part of the shock is realizing that the potential for cheapness lurked in “What Child Is This...
...first party Lumbard and Say attended was in December, he told The Court in a second appearance. He said “faggots” from a club called the Golden Rooster were present at the bash, referred to as a “bitch party.” There was dancing, dressing in women’s clothes and “some kissing witnessed.” Lumbard said he did not drink, but that he danced once, before leaving at about 1:30 a.m. Several times afterward, Lumbard dropped by the parties in Perkins...
...shape of a boat. "Maybe our ancestors sailed here from somewhere, and they wanted to keep their memory of the sea," says Theos Muja, another clan patriarch. He then embarks on a convoluted tale about the local volcanoes: Ibolobu is man, and Enerea is nature, married to Manulabu, the rooster. Ibolobu falls for Enerea and fights Manulabu for her. In the end, the rooster's head is chopped off, leaving Ibolobu free to wed Enerea. Muja takes half an hour to spin the yarn, puffing away on hand-rolled, pungent cigarettes, pulling faces and waving his hands around...
...staff songwriter and soon had his own smash, "Lonely Weekends." All of these performers got the can't-miss slapback echo-chamber treatment, and all eventually bolted Sun. By the end of the '50s the revolution was over for the bright yellow label with the sun-ray stripes, the rooster and the encircling clef notes...