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...pumped for the race, Madigan-Curtis sang such quintessential adrenaline-building tunes as the theme from the Sylvester Stallone boxing movie “Rocky” to herself...
...extraordinary moment the atmosphere was transformed. Anger seeped from the tent into the cool winter air as the crowd sang the black anthem God Bless Africa. They sang first in Zulu and then in Sotho. They sang with joy, and they sang with conviction. Speaking in English, Tutu told the gathering that he had asked the government, "Please allow us to mourn, to bury our dead with dignity, to share the burden of our sorrow. Do not rub salt in our wounds ... I appeal to you because we are already hurt, already down. We are humans, not animals. When...
...Thus sang female Marines as they marched in cadence through twelve weeks of boot-camp training at Parris Island, S.C. until Peter Berle, president of the National Audubon Society, fired off a letter to Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley. "A tough Marine may well consider this as another crank letter from a pansy," wrote Berle, a former Air Force intelligence officer and veteran of 94 parachute jumps. But, he protested, the women could find some way to celebrate their toughness other than "idolizing people who squash birds' heads." Brigadier General Donald Miller, Kelley's top spokesman, promptly sent...
...frighten the East Asian nations, which have come to rely upon the U.S. as a benevolent trading partner. Said Narongchai Akrasanee, managing director of Thailand's Industrial Management Co.: "Our big brother, the U.S., is threatening to declare a trade war with the rest of the family." Complained Suh Sang Mok, vice president of the Korea Development Institute: "A lot of people in South Korea feel that it is being picked out as a sacrificial lamb...
Although no one in the group sang, two members of the band occasionally interrupted the languid, drawn-out notes of the violin and base with readings of passages of Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities. Perhaps too obscurely poetic to be fully grasped or even enjoyed, the band’s bizarre music, nevertheless, had a calming, almost hypnotic quality, which sadly was periodically obliterated by intentionally jarring outbursts of radio static. There is no need to say that the band continuously kept its audience guessing for what would come next...