You can hear the local echoes; Gene Kelly, in "An American in Paris" (1951), and Fred Astaire, in "Funny Face" (1957), both found love in France and, with a little help from Gershwin, told us all about it with a tune — " 'S wonderful, 's marvellous," they sang.
* * * "I remember my twenty-somethingth birthday, combined with my late mother's anniversary," Halinka suddenly interrupted everyone with her marvellous eastern sing-song accent, rubbing her enormous ring with the big red bead.
"A large woman with huge eyes and an expressive face, she was a natural comedienne, had a large voice for both speaking and singing, and could do marvellous impressions.
The brillaint Nessa and Uncle Bryn from Gavin & Stacey are singing 'Islands in the Stream', which is a marvellous song even when being murdered by Rob Brydon.
Think of Ali throwing his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River; Barry McGuigan's dad singing "Danny Boy" at Loftus Road; Marvin Hagler legally prefixing his name with "Marvellous"; and basically everything Mike Tyson's ever done.
That is the meaning of the title, and Marsalis enlarges on this theme through songs with bitter lyrics sung by a marvellous new singer, Jennifer Sanon, and even a burst of rap he himself delivers.
It wasn't at all bad, but I'm so delighted it gave the middle finger to Putin and his ilk: even Georgia voted Austria a couple of points higher than the young Russian twins, who didn't deserve the opprobrium-by-proxy, having made a marvellous fist of singing, while rocking on a massive seesaw with their hair braided together, some words about universal love.
By Edward Weismiller The New Yorker, July 27 , 1946P. 26 The children sang, Come look at the marvellous ocean, View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Emily Nussbaum By Phil Klay.
At the climax, the massed voices — here including the marvellous Brooklyn Youth Chorus, under the direction of Dianne Berkun — sing the words "Light!
Handsome Giorgio and delectable Clara are all beauty, revelling in their marvellous bodies and exquisite bliss, but the happiness they sing of so exultantly crashes in an instant with news of the soldier's imminent departure to barracks far away.
