With NEH support, he is writing a book on "The Star-Spangled Banner" and he serves as founding board chair of the Star Spangled Music foundation and its anthem history website.
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The United States of America — "The Star-Spangled Banner" 17.
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This young Cuban boy was playing 'The Star Spangled Banner.
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Topanga tank one piece suit in Spangled Stripe, $138; showmeyourmumu.
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A saxophonist at the rear played the Star Spangled Banner.
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Saba Ahmed appears on Fox News with a star-spangled headscarf.
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As for 16-year-old Jackie Evancho's 'Star Spangled Banner' -- flawless.
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But the star-spangled banner marches on WalesThink of the valleys.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" in no way glorifies or celebrates slavery.
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And in case you missed it: Gucci's Sequined, Studded, Spangled Saga.
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" Examine the full text of Key's poem "The Star Spangled Banner.
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And yes, I stand when I hear 'The Star-Spangled Banner.
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" / "505" / "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" / "Crying Lightning" / "Do I Wanna Know?
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Congress declared "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem in 1931.
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The provenance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is itself deeply suspect.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" followed, eliciting more gasps from the seats.
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" Pete Buttigieg knows all the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Here are just a few examples: 'Star-Spangled Banner' performance Barr turned in what is now considered one of the all-time worst "Star-Spangled Banner" performances when she sang at a 1990 San Diego Padres game.
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There were red and blue beaded necklaces, star spangled scarves, American flags.
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See: A skintight, spangled, dark gown paired with a slicked-back topknot.
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The director and choreographer Lee Sunday Evans oversees the spangled, cutthroat fun.
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It's full of freedom and spangled with every kind of liberty imaginable.
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As the ballet opens, a mysterious astrologer arrives, in a spangled cloak.
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They said the Pledge of Allegiance together and sang the Star Spangled Banner.
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Probably best to listen to some spangled Yugoslavian funk and get over yourself.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" echoes the past and gives voice to our present.
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They then stood and locked arms and sang "The Star Spangled Banner" together.
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But when the "Star-Spangled Banner" played, the Cowboys stood with locked arms.
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Balboo is clearly representing the United States, based on this star-spangled look.
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The star-spangled banner of National Anthem fame had 15 stars on it.
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In Mexico City, "The Star Spangled Banner" was performed at the National Palace.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" has long been a site of dissent and disagreement.
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What all did Francis Scott Key really invoke in the "Star-Spangled Banner"?
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But when it comes to "The Star Spangled Banner," less is sometimes more.
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President Trump can have his star-spangled show and preach to his choir.
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President Trump can have his star-spangled show and preach to his choir.
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There are endless renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner," but let's be real, America.
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It wasn't until 1931 that "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the official national anthem.
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But those giant, high-waisted, star-spangled briefs didn't do Lynda Carter any favors.
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There's Valentino's special Wonder Woman capsule collection featuring star-spangled coats, jeans and handbags.
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Somewhere along a star-spangled road we lost sight of Donald J. Trump's hands.
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Two years later, Trump unveiled the Taj Mahal, a spangled confection on the boardwalk.
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" Kaepernick sparked national debate late last month by sitting during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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I looked in the mirror and a rainbow spangled demon stared back at me.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" was not even Francis Scott Key's first go at it.
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He loves the parades, the star-spangled pomp and surrounding himself with generals' stars.
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Demi did a pretty standard version of "The Star Spangled Banner" ... it was great.
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" Pence soon left, after some players knelt in protest during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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"I have everybody singing 'The Star Spangled Banner,' " Mr. Young told NPR in 2011.
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Sham picked out a spangled strapless confection, but Azizeh worried it exposed too much flesh.
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Studios have long struggled to bring DC's star-spangled heroine to life, but Warner Bros.
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I refuse to have the "Star Spangled Banner" used as a cudgel against principled speech.
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When she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner," Houston succeeded like few have, before or since.
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Gavin DeGraw may have seen some stars after singing The Star Spangled Banner on Saturday.
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"Star Spangled Banner" — 1991 Houston's Super Bowl XXV performance spoke to—and for— all Americans.
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Their sacrifice is stitched into each star and every stripe of our Star-Spangled Banner.
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See, for example, Britney Spears's onstage chartreuse and silver spangled — what would you call it?
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Just listen to how weird "Star-Spangled Banner" sounds when transposed to its enharmonic opposite.
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" So the team did not go out onto the field for "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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But what were folks talking about when they weren't distracted by the star-spangled spectacle?
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A big cutout photo of Diaghilev, sitting in a spangled bathtub, floats across the backdrop.
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The spangled boutiques inhabit a phalanx of regal hôtels particuliers where Renaissance aristocrats held salons.
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On this day in 1931, Congress made the Star Spangled Banner the national anthem. pic.twitter.
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The Post noted that some protesters even sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the demonstration.
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" Sunshine danced off his spangled custom-made Dodgers jersey, emblazoned with an appropriate team number: "21999.
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In the second, she gave a subtle smile to the camera in a star-spangled outfit.
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"These star-spangled treats will be the hit of the holiday," says the Food Network star.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" thus honors American military heroes, black and white, without regard to race.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" nevertheless shares its conceptual DNA with the United States as a whole.
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The history of "The Star-Spangled Banner," like the United States as a whole, is convoluted.
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There's a petition going around to have Quavo ad lib on the 'Star-Spangled Banner' track.
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Open up a chondrite, the most common form of stony meteorite, and you see spangled stardust.
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They shook hands and exchanged smiles before listening to "The Star-Spangled Banner" and reviewing troops.
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He drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" will be aired live and is scheduled to be performed by Pink.
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Lucy's ensemble matched the star-spangled bottles of Svedka vodka being snatched up by 20-somethings.
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What irritates him is the version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" being used at the Olympics.
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The Indiana Fever team knelt and locked arms during "The Star-Spangled Banner," according to ESPN.
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" ANGELOS "When 'The Star-Spangled Banner' was played, along with the Cuban anthem, Fidel stood up.
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There's also the Star Spangled Banger at Coney Island Brewery, if you're looking for a party.
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Especially when the brand is doing so with a star-spangled display of power and money.
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As they swiveled around, they undulated as a spangled unit, like an inky, iridescent sea creature.
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Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell kneeled during the "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Saturday's baseball game.
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Elsewhere, activists wearing blue berets spangled with EU stars wandered around hawking "Bollocks to Brexit" stickers.
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" Then, hands on hearts, they recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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" "A rare and star-spangled calamity which will leave jaws littered across floors and agents unemployed.
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He and others kneeled during "The Star Spangled Banner" to protest police brutality against African-Americans.
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As "The Star-Spangled Banner" began, six players from the Rebels took a knee and bowed.
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It is a statue of Christiano Ronaldo looking spangled but wanting to be so much more.
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The town has the feel of SoHo, if SoHo had the star-spangled facade of Main Street.
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After about a dozen 49ers players kneeled during the Star Spangled Banner, Pence got up and left.
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He was wearing a huge star spangled diamond encrusted watch which was our first encounter with bling!
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The next three weeks of taping were, at best, star-spangled awesomeness, and at worst terrifyingly chaotic.
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Ready your BBQs, break out your star spangled flip flops, and dust off your boogie boards, folks.
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No one gets to misconstrue those star-spangled panties as an invitation to grab her Amazon ass.
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The NFL star has since vowed to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner," provoking mixed reactions nationwide.
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"Their sacrifice is stitched into each star and every stripe of our Star-Spangled Banner," Trump said.
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His dog, Scout, was wearing a star-spangled girdle, and he pawed at Ms. Pelosi's red dress.
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What does this latest twist mean for the future of the Star-Spangled Man with a Plan?
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The pitcher had sung "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the minors before, but never in the majors.
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A man who gave $13 million in 1998 for the restoration of the original Star-Spangled Banner.
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Surrounded by tyrannical divas, lethal vendeuses and "the star-spangled bitches" of fashion, Bill appears totally happy.
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The brim of his star-spangled hat, reading "Make America Great Again," nearly grazed her blonde hair.
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In the finale, everyone returns to the ring, shimmying together like a spangled, more flexible United Nations.
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"An outsized, sequin-spangled, sunglassed Cosmic Being leans into frame," reads the description for the first scene.
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The Star-Spangled Banner and the school flag were hoisted on the flagpoles on the school lawn.
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Collection centers opened across the state yesterday, and will continue accepting star-spangled banners until May 23.
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Putin's Russia is spangled with repressive and illiberal policies, and yet Putin is overwhelmingly popular among Russians.
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He's instantly more relatable than Tony Stark's "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist," or Captain America's star-spangled super soldier.
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I can't find the flag,'' Goodell said, scanning the field while preparing to observe ''The Star-Spangled Banner.
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This line comes from the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," which was written by Francis Scott Key.
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They should, because Leslie Jones would look so delightful up on the podium in her star-spangled leggings.
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" She was there to open the game by singing the national anthem, Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner.
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And how willing he was to go back to the fight – wherever that star-spangled banner yet waves.
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While everyone stood, right hands over their hearts as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played, Kaepernick pointedly sat down.
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"I've sung 'The Star-Spangled Banner' – that is the most nerve-wracking thing in the world," she says.
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Gavin DeGraw took quite a tumble on Saturday after performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at an NHL game.
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A star-spangled bikini-wearing Courtney Stodden is seen in the posters, obtained exclusively by ITK from PETA.
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"Ralph came forward and funded the conservation and restoration of the star-spangled banner," she told the outlet.
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Parts 1 and 2 of "Star Spangled to Death" will be shown on Saturday beginning at 6 p.m.
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" He explains, "The history of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' like the United States as a whole, is convoluted.
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For Biden it was a star-spangled night, with a roaring, energized crowd after two major rivals — Sens.
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This year's routine involved two catchers and, during the finale, a spangled foursome seems to square dance midair.
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Kaepernick first remained seated during "The Star-Spangled Banner" late last month to protest police brutality against minorities.
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Finally, "The Star-Spangled Banner" warbled out, tinny and thin, as Spanberger, hand now over heart, sang along.
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This was quintessential America, we thought, straight out of the movies — a star-spangled feast for the senses.
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Steering toward the Belknap County jail, past homes spangled with Christmas lights, Adams admitted that he felt wary.
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But he fidgeted and air-conducted at his own Super Bowl party as "The Star-Spangled Banner" rang.
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It is the Star-Spangled Banner at the National Museum of American History, not the Betsy Ross flag.
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Members of the Miami Dolphins kneel during the playing of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' prior to a 2016 game.
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But that still doesn't explain the black and white sock printed onto the side of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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He learned "The Star Spangled Banner" by watching a YouTube video from the NHL playoffs, according to the outlet.
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It's been said that Houston lip-synced "The Star-Spangled Banner" on this day, but that's not entirely fair.
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None of them knew the pledge of allegiance or more than a few words of the "Star-Spangled Banner".
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This is the Wonder Woman TV show you're probably familiar with, with Lynda Carter in the star-spangled onesie.
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Star-spangled in blue and purple, the artist's structure foregoes rectilinear geometries in favor of more circular swivel shapes.
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It's got plenty of pockets and patriotic patches to show your love for the Star-Spangled man in style.
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His entourage—donning bizarro American accessories like star-spangled neckties—turn into the greatest hype men of all time.
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Video posted online shows the protestors singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as people walking to the rally walk by.
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The lyrics to the "Star Spangled Banner" were botched by a singer who earlier was playing Toby Keith covers.
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The Dallas owner won't allow anyone who takes a knee during the "Star-Spangled Banner" to be a Cowboy.
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When "The Star-Spangled Banner" played as he stood atop the medals stand for the final time, he wept.
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"'The Star-Spangled Banner' is really about the underdog hero who defies the odds and wins," he told me.
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Isolationist America-Firsters, defending "The Star-Spangled Banner," shouted down efforts to sing "God Bless America" at public gatherings.
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" Norman's remarks come amid a bitter feud between Trump and the league regarding protests during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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So hail the IFC Center for the series Autocratic for the People: An Unpresidented Series of Star-Spangled Satires.
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It was dubbed "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Remix" and some folks did not groove to it at all.
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Every year, debate breaks out over who gave the best performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" of all time.
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Now, Big Ben -- who stayed in the tunnel during the "Star Spangled Banner" -- says he regrets not joining Villanueva.
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The undersea scenes are full of bright reds and pinks spangled onto a banner of crystal blues and greens.
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The bottles also feature the words "America," United States motto "E Pluribus Unum" and lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner.
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But then Halsey swoops in wearing a diamante spangled crop top and judicious amounts of underboob to save the day!
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It's unclear if the president didn't know the words or simply favors singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in random bursts.
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His high notes were pristine; his delivery of the last stanza of "The Star Spangled Banner" was flawless and crisp.
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"I was proud of him," she said, adding that Drake has been singing the Star-Spangled Banner since last winter.
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At 8:00 the colors go up, the Star-Spangled Banner is being played, and suddenly planes come sweeping in.
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He sat during the Star-Spangled Banner -- but when the Mexican national anthem played, he was back on his feet.
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Kaepernick took a knee during The Star-Spangled Banner during San Francisco's final exhibition outing in San Diego last week.
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On every day that Parliament sits, Mr Bray arrives at 7.30am in a star-spangled cape at nearby College Green.
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This tiny singer knows the Star Spangled Banner from beginning to end, sure, but boy is that a long song.
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Her spangled drone folk floats quietly on a cloud of clove smoke and chloroform, inviting and intimidating in shifting measures.
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These over-the-ear headphones have Wonder Woman's signature logo and star-spangled designs that only true Amazons will appreciate.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans all remained in their locker rooms while "The Star-Spangled Banner" played.
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The president repeatedly railed against players who kneeled during "The Star-Spangled Banner," urging NFL owners to fire participating players.
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Like any time before 2009, when NFL teams stayed in their locker rooms when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played.
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Dozens of players knelt on one knee, or locked arms, as the anthem singers belted out the Star-Spangled banner.
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Kaepernick has demonstrated against policy brutality toward minorities by sitting or kneeling during the "Star-Spangled Banner" since last month.
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The Star-Spangled Banner, adopted as the national anthem in 1931, was briefly replaced by the Notre Dame Victory March.
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As dozens of families around us gorged on spangled roast goose we wondered what obscure European holiday we were witnessing.
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Jewel-toned separates prefaced a parade of floral gowns — some richly printed, others cut from lace, embroidered, spangled or fringed.
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Before the game, for the second consecutive time, the Sparks left the court just before "The Star Spangled Banner" started.
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" A serious groundswell of support arose for "God Bless America" to replace the rangy, difficult-to-sing "Star Spangled Banner.
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When [Monday] he did his last song, it was perfect to leave when he was playing 'The Star Spangled Banner.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" began as an ordinary song that competed with other songs for space in the American imagination.
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For example, "The Star-Spangled Banner" made people feel pride, while Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" made them feel joyful.
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He said he used to feel a surge of belonging when he heard "The Star Spangled Banner" before baseball games.
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" Most famously, he donned a spangled dress and oversized wig to play the mother and wife Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray.
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The terrorists foiled, the performers stood, hands on their hearts, before an American flag, as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played.
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Trump has said that players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" are disrespecting the United States and its flag.
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Then, after we sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, we were pronounced full-fledged citizens.
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Then, after we sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, we were pronounced full-fledged citizens.
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Major League Baseball decided to start playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before their games as a way to show patriotism.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: O say does our star-spangled banner, over the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave, or the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Or, if you're going for a more classic approach, there are more than 20 versions of "The Star Spangled Banner" available.
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Since then, players have sat, kneeled and even bowed their heads in prayer as The Star-Spangled Banner echoes throughout stadiums.
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Imagine the Smithsonian letting the original Star-Spangled Banner be run up a flagpole for the singing of the national anthem.
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The group recorded a new version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" to go along with his performance with pro Lindsay Arnold.
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Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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The uproar over her All-Star Game 'Star-Spangled Banner' has been so intense, the singer felt the need to apologize.
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But even before the "Star-Spangled Banner" was declared the national anthem in 1931, it was a staple of sporting events.
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Trump has been highly critical of athletes kneeling in protest during "The Star-Spangled Banner," calling it disrespectful to the country.
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" His comments after President Trump last week spurred controversy when he slammed NFL players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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How do the literal meaning and the historical context of "The Star Spangled Banner" influence our modern understanding of the anthem?
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And say, doth our star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
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Ms. Davis invited the audience to sing an abstracted "Star-Spangled Banner" — a reflection on the 17th anniversary of the Sept.
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I was intoxicated, running to look under every fern and moss-spangled rock, catching fireflies at dusk and letting them go.
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They are putting America in a more honest context — our "Star-Spangled Banner" dimly seen through the mists of deep injury.
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He is on the cover of British GQ Style, wearing star-spangled boots and a black mask that obscures his face.
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When the new troops got to Barcelona, they startled the American consul by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" under his window.
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The entirety of the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers stayed in the locker room during "The Star-Spangled Banner," except for one player.
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Trump said on Twitter that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is now ordering all players to stand during The Star-Spangled Banner.
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The California chapter of the NAACP will call on Congress to remove the "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.
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So there were crystal-spangled bloomers, and red and black polka-dot corset playsuits; harlequin ruffs and beaded bareback-rider dresses.
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The player, 33, has declined to sing along with her teammates as "The Star-Spangled Banner" plays before each World Cup match.
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The Arizona Cardinals linked arms and stood for the "Star-Spangled Banner" along with the Dallas Cowboys, who knelt before the song.
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Pink, who will be singing the "The Star Spangled Banner" in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ahead of the big game is fighting the flu.
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Originally commercially manufactured shoes that were dyed red and covered with a sequin-spangled red netting, they've deteriorated in the intervening years.
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The Star-Spangled man with a plan was once a scrappy kid from Brooklyn, and his hero's journey is one to behold.
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Sports stadiums and arenas are some of the few public places where the "Star-Spangled Banner" is played on a regular basis.
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There are five names to choose from: Blue Moon Bliss, Bluetiful, Dreams Come Blue, Reach For The Stars and Star Spangled Blue.
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We talked to Jackie moments after she NAILED "The Star Spangled Banner" and she explained her range of emotions through the experience.
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Hip-hop fans, especially in NYC, haven't been that forgiving, but hey ... it wasn't "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this photo in December—and indeed it looks like a holiday wreath spangled with with sparkling lights.
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Then, just as the band hit the first note of the Star Spangled Banner, five Kennesaw State cheerleaders dropped to a knee.
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That's part of the reason why "The Star-Spangled Banner" seems so natural and true and permanent and sacred to us today.
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Jimi Hendrix was one of the headliners at Woodstock, where he made waves with his famous rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."
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The video ends, inexplicably, with the full, 70-second rendering of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the camera shows an American flag.
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Perhaps the NFL, which is close to 70% Black, should play "Lift Every Voice" side by side with the "Star Spangled Banner".
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" People also gathered with placards at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, while at Los Angeles International Airport, crowds sang "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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It's in the upside-down American flag and eerie, stretched-out Jimi Hedrix rendition of Star-Spangled Banner on the menu screen.
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Her line of affordable gem-spangled jewelry and watches, launched on QVC, reportedly sold out in 45 minutes during its initial broadcast.
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On the stand during the medal ceremony, as the Star-Spangled Banner played, they raised their fists in a Black Power salute.
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As players continue being judged by their postures during "The Star-Spangled Banner," perhaps it is fair to turn the lens around.
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And Marilyn might have wiggled by in big-bow-bustled satin sheaths for evening with star-spangled lighting bolts mixed in. Shazam!
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The top female lion tamers draw legions of crowds each year, with spangled outfits, stage names and tricks like rings of fire.
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Temperatures are expected to return to the 210s on this Tuesday in September, with a bit of breeze and sun-spangled skies.
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In her announcement video, Ms. Gillibrand uses the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a jumping-off point to her campaign.
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No musician has ever been able to nail the high notes in the " Star-Spangled Banner" quite like Whitney Houston in 1991.
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An incredible momentWhen the mic doesn't work, the crowd takes over & belts out The Star-Spangled Banner……In Edmonton🇺🇸🇨🇦 #StanleyCup pic.twitter.
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After sitting during the "Star-Spangled Banner," the five-time Pro Bowler rose for the Mexican National Anthem while getting equipment put on.
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Hermina Hirsch beautifully sang "The Star Spangled Banner" before the Detroit Tigers took on the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica Park on Saturday.
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On Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys locked arms and took a knee before the "Star-Spangled Banner," along with the team's owner Jerry Jones.
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This time it peaked at No. 6, making Houston the only artist to take "The Star-Spangled Banner" into the Billboard Top 10.
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During his appearance, the star also commented on Fergie's recent controversial performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the NBA All-Star Game.
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In a Twitter video, Berry can be seen taking off her custom translucent and spangled one-shoulder Atelier Versace gown before jumping in.
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She did just that on Thanksgiving too — performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Thursday's Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings game at Ford Field.
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They&aposve been obsessed with "The Star-Spangled Banner" ever since their grandparents played a Lee Greenwood CD on the Fourth of July.
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But now, more than 40 years after delivering his first "Star-Spangled Banner" for the Bruins, Rancourt is preparing for his final salute.
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Who else could it be but Deb/Liberty Bell, who was evidently wearing her star-spangled leotard under her clothes the whole time.
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There are star-spangled shirts and socks; soldiers hoist the American flag while people sing the national anthem, played by a youth band.
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Trump has repeatedly attacked NFL players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner," saying they are disrespecting the flag and military service members.
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What did you make of the bank of star-spangled banners alongside North Korea's Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi (flag) displayed in Singapore's Capella Hotel today?
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There was not one day look in the 42, though in a pinch the star-spangled leather jackets and pleated jumpsuits might work.
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Before today's kickoff, during the national anthem, the Chiefs decided to make their own gesture by linking arms during the Star Spangled Banner.
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Eons ago, the public demanded that Migos troubadour Quavo perform on "The Star Spangled Banner" or create a new national anthem for America.
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"At our place, when they play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at basketball games, a lot of the black students don't stand," he said.
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Maya remembered how someone started singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and fellow marchers joined in, whether they could carry the tune or not.
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A bee, bear, and even fish take a knee in the cartoon ad as "The Star Spangled Banner" is hummed in the background.
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" Half the bar rose up and looked around awkwardly as the loudspeakers from the Trump Unity Bridge began playing "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched to the U.S. Consulate on Sunday while singing the Star Spangled Banner and waving the U.S. flag.
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Costumes comprising track suits and spangled tops illustrate the opposing aesthetics of athleticism and glamour, both of which are staples of Abraham's movement.
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Drawings of star-spangled phalluses by Judith Bernstein, then an art student at Yale, could have been lifted from a men's room wall.
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Starting in 583, the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team began playing Smith's "God Bless America," substituting it for "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games.
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It was not a typical request for an Uber driver in America's capital of gambling, all-you-can-eat buffets and spangled entertainment.
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"The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously," and if the weather is nasty, go ahead and keep "The Star-Spangled Banner" inside.
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On Friday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Duhamel defends Fergie's controversial performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the NBA All-Star Game.
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The nation permitted this in an attempt to maintain a particularly racialized sense of societal order — all done under a waving star-spangled banner.
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The actor stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, where he addressed rumors that he might retire from playing the star-spangled superhero.
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The African-American community has had a troubled relationship to "The Star-Spangled Banner" dating back to more than a century before Colin Kaepernick.
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Why is quietly kneeling during "Star Spangled Banner" disrespectful but screaming like a lunatic throughout it somehow this special thing you need to experience?
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Kaepernick has refused to stand for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before San Francisco 49ers games, protesting police violence against African-Americans.
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The theme of the party was "Star Spangled Hammered"; Clara wore denim cutoffs, a blue and white striped tank top, and a red sweatshirt.
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FUN FACT -- Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1814 after he saw an American flag standing after The Battle of Baltimore.
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It felt right to blend in among the star spangled crowd of campers, but outside of July 4, it felt like wearing a costume.
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Recently, they reunited in Ohio and sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Holy Night," recording themselves to see how their voices sound together.
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NFL free agent Kaepernick was the first to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before football games to protest social injustice and racial inequality.
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Few people know "The Star-Spangled Banner" has a third verse, since it was often left out of 20th-century sheet music publications. Why?
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Fifty-two percent of those surveyed disapprove of players kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner," while 43 percent said they approve of the protest.
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" Norman's remarks come after Trump in a Friday night rally suggested NFL owners fire players who kneel in protest during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Jimi Hendrix wowed at Woodstock with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," later described as a searing 1960s protest during the Vietnam War.
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Players could opt to stay in the locker room during renditions of the "Star-Spangled Banner," but teams would have to face the penalties.
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It featured renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America" by the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus.
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These perfect cheeseburgers are stupid easy to make, topped with American cheese, and held together with a star-spangled toothpick just for good measure.
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People watching the Rio Olympics have become accustomed to hearing the Star-Spangled Banner play, as American athletes continue to dominate the medal count.
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Kaepernick's change in physical stance has yet to deter critics from insinuating that calling out racism during "The Star-Spangled Banner" betrays American patriotism.
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He deplores what he calls "star-spangled bitches" and the "phony society fringe" and short and dumpy people who dare criticize their aesthetic betters.
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In a production number reminiscent of "Trouble" from "The Music Man," she strips off her red spangled pantsuit, revealing a Wonder Woman outfit beneath.
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Kaepernick and safety Eric Reid dropped to one knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner" in San Diego, leading to scattered boos from the crowd.
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Full of invention and animation, and often spangled with little bells and other bits of flickering gold, these adornments were crafted exclusively for rulers.
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In fact, "taking a knee" during "The Star-Spangled Banner" has evolved from a protest against police brutality to an issue of free speech.
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" Vice President Pence left Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers after several 49ers knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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At the Rio Olympics, many Americans complained that the version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" chosen, heavy on minor chords, was simply too sad.
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San Francisco safety Eric Reid also took a knee with Kaepernick during "The Star Spangled Banner," which was played on the Chargers' annual Military Night.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" – Super Bowl LII, 103 Everyone from other celebrities to tweeters were blown away by Gaga's powerful rendition of the national anthem.
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It's enough to make you want to spin around and see if maybe this time you'll magically change into her very same star-spangled costume.
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It's the star-spangled playground in which our imaginations run amok, and the setting for stories that made us fall in love with sci-fi.
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While other players in the National Women's Soccer League rested their hands on their hearts during the "Star-Spangled Banner," Rapinoe's hung by her sides.
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His feud with NFL players and other athletes over whether it's "patriotic" to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" has now spread to Congress. Rep.
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Broadcasters bringing back "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a daily feature say they are encouraging unity, but the song can also be a dividing line.
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From the Star Spangled Banner to the halftime show to totally unrelated events that happen to occur around the Super Bowl, nothing is off-limits.
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A sea of people took a knee outside Bank of America Stadium as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played and police in riot gear looked on.
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Instead, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is an ode to survival, hope and an expectation that we can persist and become better than we are today.
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If you look up at the ever-expanding, star-spangled sky that is pop-culture nostalgia, you can spot Star Wars with the naked eye.
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Gieszinger begins to cut the teen's hair with a pair of scissors while singing the "Star Spangled Banner," throwing chunks of his hair behind her.
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To sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" can be to explore our history if one gets beyond rote singing to consider Key's song and its history.
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Two of his players — defensive linemen David Irving and Damontre Moore — raised their fists briefly as "The Star Spangled Banner" ended but weren&apost disciplined.
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The cheers of the enormous crowd greeted the actress while a band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and press helicopters and small planes circled overhead.
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Jokgu of The Flockstars, who appeared on America's Got Talent, will pluck out the notes to "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the game kicks off.
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In 1814, Francis Scott Key put some new lyrics over an old British tune to create the "Star-Spangled Banner," a song that fucking sucks.
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CBS Boston reported, however, that all Patriots players would stand for the "Star Spangled Banner" before the game following Trump's remarks about players being fired.
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Last year, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of kickoff, sparking both support and backlash.
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" Unlike many other players, Casey did not kneel during games last season, but instead raised his first after the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Tia Mowry's shredded, spangled Roberto Cavalli bandage minidress, dripping in fringe and sparkly beading and paired with Stuart Weitzman heels, was a subtler Prince tribute.
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While posing for a photo, Trudeau spotted a pot leaf Bentham had sewn onto the shoulder of his custom-made star-spangled button-up shirt.
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He even suggested the league should ignore its collective bargaining agreement by ordering all players to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner," no matter what.
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" In Utah, the rally for gun rights began outside a high school with a prayer, "The Star-Spangled Banner" and shouts of "Long live freedom!
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The video of Pittman's arrest was his first viral moment, and it landed him gigs playing the Star Spangled Banner at stadiums across the country.
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" [David A. Graham on the "point" of a Trump rally and political fatigue in 2018 / The Atlantic] Debating the merits of "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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We can only hope there are more lessons to come ... maybe involving the star spangled bathing suit she debuted on her Snapchat a while ago.
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" Trump reignited his attacks after Thursday's preseason games, claiming that players should be "suspended without pay" for taking a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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The choir from Seattle's Mount View Elementary School performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at an MLB game between the Seattle Mariners and the Cleveland Indians.
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In 2016 San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick started "taking a knee" to protest racial discrimination as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played at the start of games.
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Working on her new album has been a welcome distraction from the requirements of singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" live as a polarized nation watches.
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" The president doubled down on his comments Tuesday, saying the NFL should pass a rule that mandates that players stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Whether your national anthem is the star spangled one or the one by Lana Del Rey, there's one thing we're all looking forward to: Sales.
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They've inspired other NFL players and a major American soccer star to follow suit by declining to stand when "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played.
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Kaepernick became an intensely polarizing figure after he began kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before NFL games to protest racial injustice and policy brutality.
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Trump stood on the field for the ceremonial singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" and sang some of the words, but paused at several points.
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A hosting gig on Fox's The Four: Battle for Stardom and a controversial performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at February's NBA All-Star Game followed.
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An incredible momentWhen the mic doesn’t work, the crowd takes over & belts out The Star-Spangled Banner......In Edmonton🇺🇸🇨🇦 #StanleyCup pic.twitter.
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Rapinoe, 33, declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America.
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Amy's sister Mary Dyson and her husband, Rob Dyson, were also killed in the crash, according to Star Spangled Crossfit, where Mary worked as a coach.
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I walked into the front lobby, a small space undecorated except for a narrow strip of Foxconn-spangled wallpaper behind a receptionist desk in the corner.
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Rapinoe, co-captain of the U.S. women's soccer team, has declined to sing along with her teammates as "The Star-Spangled Banner" plays before each match.
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But there's also star-spangled powder (cocaine), dance fever (fentanyl), and Beyoncé (heroin), three terms that also sound like highlights from a Super Bowl halftime show.
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The design reads "The stakes are too high to stay home," in star-spangled lettering that encourages everyone who reads it to get out and vote.
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I wanted to do it too -- I love the Star Spangled Banner -- but I didn't think I had the right because I was not an American.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" celebrates the heroes who defended Fort McHenry in the face of almost certain defeat against the most powerful gunships of the era.
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Throughout this year's World Cup tournament, Rapinoe has declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match, in solidarity with Kaepernick's cause.
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Giant Key Drop — Frederick, Maryland The tradition is an homage to Francis Scott Key, who wrote the Star Spangled Banner, and is from this town. 2.
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But according to MSNBC and NBC News' Dafna Linzer, Trump missed Pink's performance of The Star-Spangled Banner entirely while greeting the cheerleaders at his party.
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One man wears a red-checkered dress shirt, another a star-spangled black-and-white tee with detroit stretched out across the chest, like a banner.
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Gaga's touching performance comes after her epic rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl and Golden Globe win for American Horror Story: Hotel.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is regularly sung at schoolwide events, especially for team sports, where those assembled are expected to stand, hats removed, hands on heart.
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In 1983, a New York Times poll saw voting, singing the Star Spangled Banner, and serving in the armed forces as the greatest signs of patriotism.
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The Associated Press noted that Lynch sat down during "The Star-Spangled Banner" all of last season but has never given a reason for doing so.
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My favorite is Mr. Oliver's outfit — a worn leather skull cap, a long dark coat spangled with Guinness bottle caps — which somehow renders him resplendently Bruegelian.
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It's a song cherished by so many that some have even fought to have it replace the Star-Spangled Banner as the United States' national anthem.
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Colin Kaepernick It is inconceivable that anyone reading this column missed Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" this preseason.
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In Nike's latest ad, United Together, Chance delivers a rousing song about unity and America, weaving in references to the Star Spangled Banner and the Constitution.
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The Owen family, with the help of Francis Scott Key of "The Star-Spangled Banner" fame, procured an Arabic translation of the Bible for ibn Said.
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We're supposed to be thinking of "O, CANADA," not "The Star-Spangled Banner," because of the roughly seven Canadian teams that play in the N.H.L. 19A.
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Dr. Gaudry said that she had been inspired to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the soldier left the plane and the coffin was carried out.
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The gold medal draped around his neck, Ashenfelter basked in "The Star-Spangled Banner" and accepted a bouquet from a young Finn in a peasant dress.
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He and first lady Melania Trump eventually stood beside the queen as some uniformed Brits played "The Star Spangled Banner" before joining her inside for tea.
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Abolitionists during Key's lifetime viewed "The Star-Spangled Banner" as they viewed the nation as a whole — through the lens of the injustice perpetuated by slavery.
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That's all fine, but when Jones stages a pageant of his favorite Egyptian deities—as a way of illustrating the inspiration for his spangled diva, Jomama?
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the first player to use the pre-kickoff "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a form of peaceful protest.
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The singer nailed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Trump's inauguration in January, and tells our guy in D.C. it gave her career a nice little boost.
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Though our Star Spangled Banner is more like the Cerulean Monologue, that doesn't mean designers are completely tone deaf when commenting on what happens beyond the runway.
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Kicking off one of the most star-powered Super Bowls in recent memory, Lady Gaga sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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They're the vanguard behind the viral phenomenon of maximalist, Vegasified Christmas houses, spangled with lights flashing in time to everything from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Slipknot.
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Back then, kids everywhere grabbed their wheelie bikes, made rickety ramps and staged backyard jumps to be more like the daredevil in the star-spangled white jumpsuit.
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Dressed in a glamorous silver spangled gown paired with a pair of lethal-looking stilettos, she was doing everything in her power to stave off a cold.
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In a statement, the Titans announced they would remain inside locker room during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" before their game against the Seattle Seahawks.
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Video posted on social media showed several members of the Ole Miss team kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before their game against the University of Georgia.
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Inside the exhibit, visitors are greeted by the distorted guitar riffs from Jimi Hendrix's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
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It's as though Little Richard himself blazes into the frame in all of his spangled, screaming glory and demands that Mr. Greenman get the damn party started.
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There were no visible demonstrations by NFL players during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the NFL season opener between the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday.
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They've decided to work together and the result is a gorgeously spangled remix of Beshevl's "The Traveller's Night Song", which is taken from his forthcoming album Wanderer.
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It took over 1,000 hours for the Champagne-hued, off-the-shoulder jumpsuit to get spangled to the hilt with Swarovski crystals — 1,692,000 crystals, to be exact.
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The XFL is making a big mistake when it comes to requiring its players to stand for "The Star Spangled Banner" -- so says Jaguars star Marcedes Lewis.
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The 171 Nexstar television stations across the U.S. plan to start kicking off their daily broadcasts by playing "The Star-Spangled Banner," according to a Friday announcement.
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A Jimi Hendrix impersonator, usually kept away by federal officials, was teeth-plucking a noisy rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of the East Wing.
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But when the university's "Showtime" marching band played "The Star-Spangled Banner," Howard's cheerleaders, who were lined up at one end zone, did not heed the request.
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When she finished her main set, Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" blared from the sound system; she and her bandmates took a knee.
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Several athletes, including a handful of N.F.L. players, have refused to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" to protest of the treatment of minorities by the police.
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On Monday morning, Fox and Friends tore into Beyoncé and Jay-Z for apparently staying seated during "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
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That feeling is accentuated by Vachek's own aphorisms splashing across the screen (as in Ken Jacobs's Star Spangled to Death, a similarly sprawling interrogation of a nation).
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Three food trucks, another American import, did brisk business, selling burritos and hamburgers, and the ceremony opened with the Saudi national anthem and the Star Spangled Banner.
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The former quarterback popularized the gesture of kneeling during pre-game renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 2016 while a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
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The headquarters of MENSA international, the nation of El Salvador, or the grave site of "The Star Spangled Banner" writer Francis Scott Key, according to the show.
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" Jane Hampton Cook is the author of "America's Star-Spangled Story" and "The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner," however, is notoriously hard to sing because of its overly wide melodic range and filled with confusing lyrics about an old military skirmish.
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At George Washington University I sang in glee club and was invited to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at several of the GWU men's home basketball games.
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While the NFL led protests against President Donald Trump's recent railing against NFL player Colin Kaepernick and other players kneeling during the "Star Spangled Banner," NASCAR remained standing.
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Singer and middle school assistant principal G. Star Swain made onlookers swoon with her powerful rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this month.
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And as for the famed claim from "The Star-Spangled Banner" that America is the "land of the free," Gilmore pointed out that US incarceration rates suggest otherwise.
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The league announced in May that teams would be fined if players did not stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" while on the field or on the sidelines.
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Historically speaking, people are almost always blown away by celebrities who decide to take on the honor of belting out "The Star-Spangled Banner" at high-profile events.
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Get the Batman Wallet for $5.99 See Details These over-the-ear headphones have Wonder Woman's signature logo and star-spangled designs that any true Amazon will appreciate.
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His most famous live performance, as the closing act at Woodstock Festival in 1969, included a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" charged with the howls of war.
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The Bronx-born Amirante sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Rangers games at Madison Square Garden from 1980 until he retired in 2015 and on special occasions afterward.
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Instead, while the "Star-Spangled Banner" played, he remained seated at Levi's Stadium – where the 49ers were set to play against his hometown team, the Green Bay Packers.
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After tripping up both Fergie and Rachel Platten in recent months, "The Star-Spangled Banner" struck again Saturday as Lady Antebellum stepped out onto the ice in Nashville.
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Kaepernick's star-spangled protest is part of this tradition, and thus is a productive call for Americans to make this "land of the free" serve all its people.
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Trump wants the league to suspend players if they kneel during the pregame renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner," saying on Monday the players were disrespecting the country.
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The song, exposing the hidden unsettling funk at the heart of the Star-Spangled Banner, was by far the funkiest song in history to interpolate Francis Scott Key.
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Lawrence wore a "Black Lives Matter" T-shirt under her blazer as she sang the "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the Maimi Heat took on the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Basically, there was a video with Obama, several Teletubby sculptures, and the music playing in the room was a version of the "Star Spangled" track that I did.
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However, some users pointed out that the "hand-on-the-heart" thing is a tradition usually associated with the Pledge of Allegiance, not with The Star Spangled Banner.
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The Super Bowl champs' star linebacker followed Colin Kaepernick's lead and took a knee during the Star Spangled Banner Thursday night in Denver during the league's kickoff game.
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Seeing the work through spangled eyes would create a whole new piece that would only exist in that moment, in their mind's eye... never to be seen again.
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"I am eighteen years old, have a good set of teeth, and believe in Andy Johnson, the star-spangled banner, and the 4th of July," the ad reads.
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There are records of "The Star Spangled Banner" gracing the diamond going back as far as 1897, but the song wasn't adopted as the national anthem until 1931.
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Not to be outdone, many of the partiers — resplendent in spangled Balmain spacesuits, shiny ear cuffs and chromed accouterments — seemed on the verge of some metallurgic transmogrification themselves.
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Players will also be allowed to stay in their locker rooms during the anthem, but any players who protest during the "Star Spangled Banner" will face a penalty.
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Wearing spangled outfits, and using stage names like "The Queen of Lions," they coax big cats through rings of fire or allow them to stroll over their bodies.
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And it's not just Nike, but also Adidas's color-blocked Stella McCartney styles and Fila's star-spangled heritage looks, to name a few other U.S. Open fashion debuts.
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I worked in both professional and collegiate athletics for five years, and in both venues, I never felt like "The Star-Spangled Banner" got the respect it deserved.
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And the protests extended to those performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as well: In Detroit and Nashville, singers dropped to one knee at the end of their renditions.
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On Friday, he helped the US win gold in the men's foil team event, and then took a knee on the podium as the Star Spangled Banner played.
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The new edict contained a loophole of sorts, in that players can remain in the locker room during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" if they wish.
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On the day that I visit her studio, Gangloff, 44, is dressed in navy blue coveralls spangled with paint, a braided leather choker and lace-up work boots.
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An Uzbek eatery offers fragrant meat dumplings along with a generous helping of post-Soviet kitsch in the form of glittering gold lamé tablecloths and spangled voile curtains.
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Those visual insights persist throughout the film; Hendrix regularly teases renditions of the Star-Spangled Banner, laughing with the audience in an awareness that his reputation precedes him.
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When it was his turn, Mayweather, wearing a star-spangled tracksuit and a big gold chain, threw a stack of bills in the air, befitting his nickname Money.
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You might imagine a performance like this — earnest, star-spangled and populated with respectable thespians — airing to a bigger crowd on cable or public TV as a service.
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" Smith's connection with the Flyers started in 1969 when a team executive ordered her version of "God Bless America" to be played instead of "The Star Spangled Banner.
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That series will debut "in early 2020," and will follow Courtney Whitmore, the stepdaughter of hero Star Spangled Kid (Luke Wilson), who later joins the Justice Society of America.
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And it's not just British designers that have produced merch in support of Britain's place within the European Union – Vetements created a blue star-spangled hoodie last year, too.
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" Sharpton says both Robinson and Kaepernick raise a "critical point" about Francis Scott Key and the negative references to slaves in the complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has decided to end his national anthem protest --- and will STAND when the Star Spangled Banner is played for the rest of the season.
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Closing out the swearing-in ceremony was Jackie Evancho, a 16-year-old singer and America's Got Talent star, who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the Capitol steps.
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But Kaepernick might not get the chance to stand for "The Star Spangled Banner" in 2017 if NFL executives effectively blackball him from the league over last year's protests.
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His job-free status has been a source of controversy, as many believe it is connected to his now-famous kneeling during the Star-Spangled Banner at NFL games.
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" President Trump brought the controversy surrounding the national anthem protest to the forefront last year when he lambasted NFL players who took a knee during the "Star-Spangled Banner.
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But first he's gotta check in with his trusty VP, Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) to make sure folks are respecting the Star Spangled Banner at the Indiana Pacers game!
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Royale Projects shows Mexican-American Ruben Ortiz Torres's "4 of July BBQ" (2017), which features a monochromatic star-spangled banner made from the ashes of a burnt American flag.
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Denver Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to come out of the locker room before a game for the Star Spangled Banner and called it a symbol of oppression.
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Dak Prescott told reporters that the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games was not the "time or venue" for player-led protests against police brutality and racism.
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It all devolves at the end with the Republican singing her heart out to an off-tune "Star-Spangled Banner" and everyone too high to really care about politics.
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A few years back now, Jones decided to lay his dubstep days to rest, concentrating on playing and producing everything from star-spangled disco to lean, lithe, tech-house.
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The former San Francisco 49er and other football players who kneel in protest during "The Star-Spangled Banner" are a frequent subject of criticism for Trump and his supporters.
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Anthology Film Archives is presenting a series dedicated to these creations, most notably "Star Spangled to Death" (2004), which Mr. Jacobs retooled over the course of almost 50 years.
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The yuzu-dashi vongole is generously spangled with littlenecks in their shells, soft snips of Napa cabbage, and yuzu zest, striking a glorious balance of sweet, tart, and briny.
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One suggestion was to have the home team decide whether both teams would be on the field for "The Star-Spangled Banner," or remain in their respective locker rooms.
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" The comments came just hours after the NFL unveiled new league rules aimed at stamping out football players' protests during the pre-game performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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The most rousing motif is a hero — usually donning regalia in some combination of mask, cape, tights, and star-spangled patterns — punching an enemy (often Hitler) in the face.
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He advised the Smithsonian Institution on how best to preserve the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the War of 21971.
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" As we previously reported, the Las Vegas Red Lions -- sponsored by Mayweather's TMT brand -- followed Colin Kaepernick's lead this weekend and took a knee during the "Star-Spangled Banner.
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Whether you're an American exploring your own backyard or a tourist flocking to the country's most famous sites, these iconic landmarks will have anyone humming the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Along with a star-spangled holiday to kick things off this week, the month is also serving up a spirited dose of deals on all things furniture to decor.
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A flimsy fairy-tale from John Schultz, set in a picturesque — and imaginary — snow-spangled kingdom, "The Royal Baby" comes just as the newest generation is toddling around England.
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After one too many Jack and Cokes, you decide to dominate the Karaoke machine, where your challenging song of choice — "The Star Spangled Banner" — isn't doing you any favors.
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In their statement, the Broncos defended members of the team who joined the more than 200 NFL players protesting during "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Sunday after Trump's remarks.
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As the Zac Brown Band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" before kickoff at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Trump stood on the field and fumbled his way through the song.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is a poem written in 20063 the morning after a battle at Fort Henry in Baltimore, and was later set to an English drinking song.
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At the spangled gel tips of your very own Cher fingers' a wardrobe spanning the life of a timeless icon whose mononym and navel have been household words since 1971.
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Later that year, during the height of the NFL anthem protests, Legend said "The Star-Spangled Banner" was "weak," sharing an Intercept article that referenced the third stanza condoning slavery.
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" Night: "A long black tulle fashionably-made evening dress, spangled with silver stars and crescents, silver crescent ornaments, silver belt; a crescent on the head … an owl on the shoulder.
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" The four-time Super Bowl MVP added that their discussions included how to show their support for the movement, which they did by locking arms during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Some would even say that they've watched their favorite video sections more than they've heard "She Loves You" or even "The Star-Spangled Banner," because as skateboarders, we're that obsessive.
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Several dozen National Football League players kneeled, sat or locked arms during "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the regular season, drawing rebukes from President Donald Trump who called it unpatriotic.
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He's also been honored with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, recognizing his lifetime contributions as a great American and his leadership role in the preservation of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, both of the Miami Dolphins, kneeled during The Star-Spangled Banner, ahead of their game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night.
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Instead, you now have the ability to name this (^) crayon: Dreams Come Blue Star Spangled Blue Blue Moon Bliss Reach for the Stars Bluetiful Our top 5 names are in!
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Pink joins the ranks of Luke Bryan, Lady Gaga, Idina Menzel, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys, who have performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of kick-off in recent years.
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Malcolm Jenkins, Michael Bennett and De'Vante Bausby stood quietly in the field entrance tunnel while "The Star-Spangled Banner" played out before the Eagles took on the New England Patriots.
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Both ships are spangled with bright orange, yellow, and red spots, but up close, the spots resolve into tiny autumn-leaf decals, meticulously applied to every surface in thick layers.
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Imagine a playlist that squeezed together the music of Nick Drake and Lady Gaga, or think of a loaf of wild-yeast sourdough bread all rainbow-spangled with Pop Rocks.
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Star-Spangled Magic Show (Monday) This half-hour show blends magic and history, with actors portraying Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross performing the tricks and describing the historical figures' lives.
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Reid, who played with Kaepernick on the 49ers at the time, was one of the first professional athletes to join him in taking a knee during the Star Spangled Banner.
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Over the weekend, three-quarters of the 44 Aurora Central Trojans football players knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the team crushed a rival, the Hinkley Thunderbirds, 41-6.
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Ms. Williams, who wore a star-spangled scarf and planned to vote for Mr. Trump, said Friday's episode in Chicago had not affected her decision to attend the Bloomington rally.
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Other players joined the "Star-Spangled Banner" protests, though the NFL has since unveiled a rule requiring players stand for the national anthem, or else wait in the locker room.
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Last year, Colin Kaepernick -- formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, but currently without a team -- drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.
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With his 'True American' theme tune and love of all things starred and spangled, he was the closest thing that wrestling had to a born leader of the free world.
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But what I saw did not only remind me of a spangled sky and outer space: every single dot of the mesh was slowly moving before finding a rest position.
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Anthony Hamilton took the reigns Sunday to do his own rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and he absolutely killed it ... even with a slowed-down version -- unlike his predecessor.
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Herschel Walker says Donald Trump is RIGHT when it comes to national anthem protests -- saying the NFL needs to impose rules banning players from kneeling during The Star-Spangled Banner.
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The bellicose and jingoistic "Star-Spangled Banner" became ubiquitous as Americans rallied to the flag during World War II, giving the idea of patriotism an increasingly narrow — and militaristic — resonance.
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But while there's always some excitement in reuniting an old band, this one mostly winds up belting out a tune equivalent to Roseanne's legendary version of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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But these days, in his spangled underwear and little else, he can be found farther north: at the Midtown Manhattan home of another outsize New York character, Donald J. Trump.
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In footage captured of the moment, Stills could be seen kneeling while "The Star Spangled Banner" played ahead of the team's matchup against the New Orleans Saints on Monday night.
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In case you were curious, when asked in The Short Answer to what song he knows all the words, he said "The Star-Spangled Banner," to groans from the audience.
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Lynch, according to multiple reports, sat for "The Star-Spangled Banner" and stood for Mexico's national anthem during a game against the New England Patriots on Sunday in Mexico City.
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At the turn of the 20th century Zhou Shu'an, an islander whose father was a priest, rose to fame singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to welcome an American navy ship.
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President Trump recently attacked the running back Marshawn Lynch for standing for Mexico's national anthem but sitting for "The Star- Spangled Banner" before an N.F.L. game, to protest police brutality.
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To reach this light sanctuary at MASS MoCA from Boston, I drove along Route 19913 across a landscape characterized by wild turkeys, purveyors of maple sweets and star-spangled bunting.
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Tons of stars blasted Fergie for her sultry rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner Sunday night ahead of a mega showdown between Stephen Curry and LeBron James' all-star squads.
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Despite Barr's pitchy performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which was so awful that President George H. W. Bush called it "disgraceful," the sitcom queen joked that Fergie's version was worse.
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Kaepernick, 28, first made headlines late last month when he knelt rather than stood when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before a pre-season game against the Green Bay Packers.
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Featuring title character America Chavez dressed like a star-spangled Beyoncé and two of Marvel's most powerful women, it's the perfect cover to arrive in the wake of the Women's March.
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Kaepernick, 28, had pledged to continue sitting during the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before National Football League games, a move that has been both criticized and cheered by commentators.
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It's an utterly gorgeous, transcendent, spectral thing of immense beauty which sounds like every good moment you've ever had on MDMA condensed into a few minutes of star-spangled-space-disco.
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The teammates were met with boos from the crowd as a naval officer sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" while dozens of military members rolled out an American flag across the field.
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The NFL announced earlier this week that teams would be fined if players or other personnel failed to stand and show respect for the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the American flag.
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And whether it's Star Wars fever influencing our wardrobe, or the rise in popularity of horoscopes and astrology, from designers to fast-fashion, it's going to be a star-spangled season.
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Clarkson, who just completed her third consecutive season on the NBC series, spoke of her fellow coach's decision before she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Indy 53 on Sunday.
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Alison Lou's core collection of emoji-spangled pieces has found a devoted audience in the fashion flock, and Chemla's working on how to harness that excitement into growing the brand's offering.
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Wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, both of the Miami Dolphins, knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner," ahead of their game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Miami Herald reported.
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His desire to discern "by dawn's early light," whether the "star-spangled banner yet wave[s]," was fueled both by his yearning for liberty and the Nation's hope to resist oppression.
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As a song, "The Star-Spangled Banner" pays homage to the ideals upon which the United States was founded and those U.S. service members who gave their lives to preserve them.
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No thanks—I'll stick to beer-breathed buggers elbowing their way through hordes of spangled sods desperately buttoning and unbuttoning their shirts as a means of staving off a heart attack.
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Wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, both of the Miami Dolphins, knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner," ahead of their game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Miami Herald reported.
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ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo" and had a sequin-spangled string of hits including "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance on Me" before splitting up in 1982.
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Leaders of a small Texas town passed a resolution declaring that it is "disrespectful" for NFL athletes and other protesters to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner," and that Texas Rep.
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The sideline protests began in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner" at football games to protest racial inequality and police misconduct.
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As the protesters pushed forward, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner," the police appeared unwilling to accommodate their wish to be arrested, and officers replaced the line of bikes with metal barricades.
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As a singer took to a microphone to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner," the Slovenia-born first lady was seen giving a slight nudge with her left arm to her spouse.
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Luckily, once she gets past her moralizing, that's what she does: she gathers us into her spangled arms, where we shiver, giddily, and forget her feel-good ambassador-of-love moments.
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Its loudspeakers blasted recordings of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America" over and over, compelling many sunbathers, reluctant to be seen as unpatriotic, to stand and salute each time.
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The president held his hand over his heart as a Cuban military honor guard played the "Star-Spangled Banner" inside the Palace of the Revolution, the center of Cuba's communist government.
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The email arrives on the heels of ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro's announcement on Friday stating that the sports network will not show "The Star-Spangled Banner" before NFL games this season.
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Nicole Williams' idea of patriotic is a star-spangled bandana and a white bikini to match the giant waves that splashed against her awesome butt as she frolicked in the surf.
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In her 2010 music video for "Telephone" with Lady Gaga, the singer wears a star-spangled ensemble and her brown hair is perfectly coifed, much like Lynda Carter's original Wonder Woman.
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Kaepernick, 28, has pledged to continue sitting during the performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" before National Football League games, a move that has been both criticised and cheered by commentators.
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And for the moment, let's even hold aside the fact that "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a sentimental song about exploding bombs, inspired by a battle in the War of 1812.
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" If you think "The Star-Spangled Banner" is problematic, it's nothing compared with "Maryland, My Maryland," which is sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree" and goes, in part: "Huzza!
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Serena's been Snapchatting like crazy from inside the place ... including the now instant classic vid of her reppin' the USA to the fullest ... in an ASSTACULAR star-spangled one piece swimsuit.
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Not only that, but Trump caused a stir last January in Atlanta before the national championship game in college football, when he strolled onto the field for the Star Spangled Banner.
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But such is the curious phenomenon of the Medora Musical, a spangled summertime revue performed in an amphitheater carved into the side of a butte, with the Badlands as its backdrop.
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In "It Will All Work Out," a wobbly, bighearted, cloak-and-chatter show at Dixon Place, Mr. Wells narrates tales from his life while modeling a series of whirling, spangled outfits.
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On Wednesday, the Seaford School District issued an apology after a parody version of the "Star-Spangled Banner" was played before a game between Seaford and Milford high schools on Tuesday.
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The majestic bald eagle, mainstay of American buying power, landmarks, and bro-y tank tops, get an Independence Day breather in these star-spangled GIFs from the denizens of the internet.
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The Steelers players stayed in the locker room during the "Star-Spangled Banner" prior to their game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, with only the coaches present on the field.
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America's repeated attempts to criminalise flag desecration appalled him; they were selective (nobody cared about the flag's abuse for commercial purposes) and contradicted the freedom for which the star-spangled banner stood.
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Still, the decision to revive the anthem tradition comes at a time when overt allegiance to "The Star-Spangled Banner" has become one of the lines that separate blue and red America.
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After winning the 800-meter freestyle race at the Rio Olympics – and shattering the world record in the meantime – Ledecky teared up while the Star Spangled Banner played during her medal ceremony.
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This year, she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Superbowl and led a powerful performance of "Til It Happens To You," the song she penned about rape survivors, at the Oscars.
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San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick started a controversy when he began the protests against injustice and police brutality by refusing to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" during preseason games.
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As in so many cases, the Kaepernick scandal shows that even concepts like "patriotism" are racially fraught, even if the country's fiercest fans of "The Star Spangled Banner" aren't aware of it.
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And she has proven enough times that she's got the pipes for Bowie's choral-esque warble, in particular with her spine-tingling performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl.
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LeBron James says he will NOT follow Colin Kaepernick's lead when it comes to the National Anthem ... and vows to STAND when "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played during the NBA season.
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Anthony came on "TMZ Live" to break down the reasons why he sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" the way he did -- which got rave reviews Sunday night ahead of the tip-off.
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People cupped candles, and sang spirituals, hymns and "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a roughly quarter-mile long procession that began at Nameless Field and ended at "the Lawn," near the Rotunda.
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To stall the meeting, her father has Titus sing the star-spangled banner over the loudspeaker, forcing the uber-patriotic board members to stand up and put their hands on their hearts.
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"—CNN Colin Kaepernick to Continue National Anthem ProtestThe 49ers quarterback insisted he will keep sitting during the "Star-Spangled Banner" until "that flag represents what it's supposed to represent in this country.
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Between the National Aquarium, Inner Harbor, Fort McHenry (where the battle that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" was fought), and various art museums, Baltimore has no shortage of cultural and historic sites.
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" Adding, "It's not like she was intentionally trying to ruin the song, and in Fergie's defense, we don't know what Francis Scott Key was thinking when he wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner.
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He lived in a National Parks Service building and spent every day in this UNESCO World Heritage Site, where he worked, hiked the mesas, and gazed at the star-spangled night sky.
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Living in the United States, I put my hand on my heart to "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Veterans Day and shook the hands of American servicemen in gratitude for their service.
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It was back when the race was an even more star-spangled event than it is today, when it was run on the Fourth of July, instead of on the closest Saturday.
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For those who stuck it out until the muddy end, Hendrix's performance of "Taps," on Monday morning, improvised during his "Star-Spangled Banner," rang like the death knell of the festival business.
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I am most emphatically not a hater, but I've got to be honest with you, when I saw her onstage with Metallica, all spangled and bedazzled and googly-eyed, I was bummed.
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I am most emphatically not a hater, but I've got to be honest with you, when I saw her onstage with Metallica, all spangled and bedazzled and googly-eyed, I was bummed.
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Think of underage drinking, smoking weed and taking class A's by the bucket-load on the weekend; of cigarette packets with their original artwork; of spangled excursions to the local corner shop.
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A military or Lufthansa plane with a blue star-spangled banner on the tail and ventilator beds inside, ready to be deployed wherever the need is greatest, would be a good start.
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Now the national anthem is front and center thanks to the president, who criticized players for not standing for "The Star-Spangled Banner" and implored the owners to fire those who protest.
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Jay-Z says he and Beyonce sitting through the "Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl was absolutely NOT a protest of any sort ... it was simply 2 moguls hard at work.
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In 2016, Kaepernick, who was then the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, staged a protest against racial injustice, refusing to stand for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games.
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The Star Spangled Banner played as crowds arrived at the rally, where posters were on display thanking U.S. lawmakers who had backed the legislation, including Marco Rubio, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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Wade tried to explain himself ... claiming he has a pre-game layup ritual he does before the 'Star-Spangled Banner' -- and innocently forgot to account for the Canadian anthem this time around.
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Now, Ukraine is -- they wanted to make it a member of NATO, and Putin is looking at his former allies now on his border, you know, singing kumbaya and the Star-Spangled Banner.
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And this new ploy insulates the far right from even that vague threat of regulation: nobody can legally argue that posing for photos and singing the Star Spangled Banner is a clear incitement.
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As the Star-Spangled Banner played at Joint Base Andrews, Barack and Michelle Obama stood, singing, with tears in their eyes -- their last public moment on the last day of the Obama presidency.
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We also visited Fort McHenry, near where Francis Scott Key penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" after realizing that the Americans had – amazingly – held out against British invaders overnight during the War of 1812.
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The competition was on between the Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers once the puck dropped, but Canadian hockey fans didn't hesitate to pick up singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" when technical problems arose.
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Kaepernick began protesting the mistreatment of racial minorities in America during the NFL preseason, first by sitting during the national anthem, then by taking a knee when "The Star Spangled Banner" is played.
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No matter what your work schedule or location within the 50 states is, these six trips can be quickly planned and easily customized for a day-of star-spangled celebration (no PTO necessary).
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Kaepernick in 2016 was the first of what became multiple NFL players to kneel during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" to protest a series of shootings of black people by police.
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe has declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America.
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So to get in the red-white-and-blue spirit, we're taking a look at her must patriotic looks throughout the years — from floral bikinis to over the top star-spangled costumes. 1.
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" Bernstein's conflation of Vietnam and Iraq is made graphic in "Union Jack-Off" and the two paintings from 2015 that reprise its imagery, "Star Spangled Boner" and the title work, "Dicks of Death.
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What really linked the song to sports, however, was a 1918 game between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs where the band played the "Star-Spangled Banner" during the seventh-inning stretch.
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There was much the same glacial, tidal feel in Will Healy's "Kolmanskop," spangled with twinkling celesta and featuring a solo violin line emerging from the side balcony, adroitly blended into the orchestral textures.
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Her mother sends her a hot meal every day, and the two occasionally meet at the local shrine: Anjum, six feet tall, in a spangled scarf, and tiny Jahanara in a black burqa.
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Within the framework of the rather spare story he wrote, Mr. Thompson burnishes the performances of the young actors, keeping an air of sun-spangled lightness in all but the most dire moments.
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Kaepernick was the first player to make a public gesture against injustice and police brutality when he refused to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner", a policy he has continued in recent weeks.
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Black women have remained tethered to a constitutionally protected star-spangled noose that allows them to move a few steps forward, but then yanks them back when they try to go even farther.
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As the tinny sound of "The Star-Spangled Banner" began to fill the Estadio Olímpico, Smith and Carlos looked at the ground, and raised their right and left arms, respectively, in the air.
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Perky and informative, this gabby, gossipy documentary from Dana Adam Shapiro follows the founding and stratospheric rise of the original spangled squad and the controversies it kicked up with those famous white boots.
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According to legend, The Star-Spangled Banner was aloft before the British were out of sight, meaning they had seen the failure of their ploy — and the end of their presence in America.
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Indeed, the image of Smith and Carlos, heads bowed and fists raised during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" in Mexico, is one of the best-known images of the 20th Century.
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He did it with slick cigarette pants and sheer tops; transparent gypsy dresses in black and leopard chiffon, billowing in the wind; red velvet rock star jackets and gold-spangled thigh-grazing dresses.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH from the start Another of my favorite "Star-Spangled Banner" dissents is Drew Baker's "National Anthem," composed in 2006 and available in a moving recording by the pianist Marilyn Nonken.
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CBS Boston reported that the entire team will stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a sign of respect this week after many members of the team knelt in protest the week prior.
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Lynch did not stand for the "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a game against the New England Patriots on Sunday in Mexico City, but did stand for the playing of Mexico's national anthem.
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"I stand for the greatest country the world has ever known, I stand when the president walks in the room and yes, I stand when I hear 'The Star Spangled Banner,'" she says.
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But with "Donnybrook" — especially the climactic fight scene, complete with a redneck rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" — he risks instead the appearance of condescension to the very demographic he seeks to represent.
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Lady Gaga represents a return to pop singers entrusted with "The Star-Spangled Banner" after game-opening renditions from the Broadway actress Idina Menzel last year and the opera singer Renée Fleming in 2014.
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It analyzes songs from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A." Meacham's contributions focuses on the history of the songs, while McGraw, fittingly, looks at them through the lens of a performer.
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Game 2Fantasia vs Alessia Cara R&B singer Fantasia did her thing, soulfully rendering the Star Spangled Banner, and making everyone at Jurassic Park -- including former President Barack Obama -- proud to be an American.
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Protests over the Star Spangled Banner started during the 2016-2017 NFL season when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem as part of a protest against police brutality.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers did not go out onto the field to hear the national anthem play on Sunday, while several New Orleans Saints players sat on their bench as the "Star-Spangled Banner" played.
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Of course, Pink is up to the challenge since singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl has been one of her dreams since she saw Whitney Houston "own" that song in 1991.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started what has become a controversy when he began the gesture against injustice and police brutality by refusing to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" during preseason games.
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Pink is about to join the ranks of Luke Bryan, Lady Gaga, Idina Menzel, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys, who have all performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of kick-off in recent years.
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"The dark future's always brighter on TV!" he sang, and the Handmaids doffed their red cloaks to reveal that some of them were men, and all of them were wearing spangled red showgirl leotards.
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But no players protested while Grammy Award-winning pop singer Pink performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of the year's most-watched U.S. television broadcast, attracting an audience of more than 100 million viewers.
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Here's a timeline of how the national anthem became a sports tradition in the first place: 1814: Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner, while watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
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Though the Pledge of Allegiance stopped being part of our daily morning routine after elementary school, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was a staple at sporting events and school assemblies in middle and high school.
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The opinion poll found that 22 percent of Americans said they do not agree with Kaepernick, who has taken a knee during the "Star-Spangled Banner" in protest of racial injustice and police brutality.
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Of course you can't, but turns out Dr. Drew really does have musical chops ... and he used 'em to belt out the Star Spangled Banner at last night's L.A. Kings game in Staples Center.
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We're told since the America's Got Talent runner-up has signed on to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" on January 20th, her weekly album sales quadrupled in digital downloads and in retailer as well.
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Players kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" are protesting the killing of unarmed black men and boys by police across the United States, as well as racial disparities in the country's criminal justice system.
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" The complaint, filed with the White House Office of Government Ethics (OGE), comes after Trump ignited controversy Friday when he advocated for NFL owners to fire players who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Trump claims the Eagles disagreed with his position on standing for the National Anthem before the game, but during the 2017 regular season and playoffs, Eagles players always stood during The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Along with "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Adagio for Strings", the BBC added the finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony—"Ode to Joy"—to their final-night celebrations after the attacks on September 11th 2001.
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The morning smacked of crisp autumn air and rich star-spangled pomp, and for a few seconds at least, I allowed myself to pretend this would be a normal Veterans Day in the city.
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Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the major leagues, free tuition, a trip to Facebook headquarters, her own action figure — this might be the most jam-packed 15 minutes of fame we've ever seen.
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During the playing of the national anthems, "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Le Zarois," while two American and two Zaire flags were in the ring, Ali mocked Foreman, who seemed not to see him.
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The continuing refusal by the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stand during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games has set off a debate about patriotism, protest and professional sports.
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After the line was announced a week earlier, critics were quick to point out the range of sports bras, leggings, and other garments offered in star-spangled and camouflage prints were made in China.
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Amid the debate about whether NFL players should kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner," Trump on Sunday retweeted an image featuring Tillman wearing a tan Army Rangers beret alongside the hashtags, #StandForOurAnthem and #BoycottNFL.
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Trump gave profane remarks on players who kneel for the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at games, calling the protests unpatriotic and urging team owners to fire or suspend players who take part.
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Her options last week included the spangled black georgette gown she wore on the red carpet last month at the Golden Globes where "A Fantastic Woman" had been nominated for best foreign language film.
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These overgrown crescents too big to fit in the palm of the hand, spangled and swagged, glutted with fillings, arrayed like objets d'art in austere concrete-walled patisseries where the bakers fuss like apothecaries.
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In 2017, that earned him the wrath of President Trump, who criticized him for sitting during "The Star-Spangled Banner" but standing while the Mexican anthem was played before a game in Mexico City.
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The sideline protests by NFL players began last year with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began taking a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner" to protest racial inequality and police brutality.
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The quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited impassioned debates over race, activism and free expression after protesting police shootings of black men by kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" at National Football League games in 2016.
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A fair-skinned and lanky man wearing white sunglasses, a star-spangled bandana, and a red shirt, Matt Kaminski was the lone member of Jake's family to fly to Rio to watch him compete.
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But besides a section devoted to the arrangement of Houston's incredible (and yes, pre-recorded) "Star Spangled Banner" performance at the 1991 Super Bowl, most of her artistry is whipped past in flickering montages.
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We believe in it so strongly that people lost their goddamned minds when a football player chose not to stand up during a rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" before a preseason NFL game.
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick stirred a polarizing national debate in 2016 after refusing to stand during pre-game renditions of the "Star Spangled Banner" to protest against police violence against African-Americans.
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" During the launch announcement in January, McMahon made it a point to draw a hard line on national anthem rules, saying it would be "appropriate" that future XFL players stand for the "Star-Spangled Banner.
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Taking the court at the Staples Center in a tight, black dress, the 42-year-old singer performed a sultry version of "The Star-Spangled Banner," reworking the tune to more of a jazzy beat.
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After a decade in Hollywood, Mr. Boneta, a former telenovela star and Mexican pop singer, has ridden his hazel-eyed looks and star-spangled accent to a new status: an all-American heartthrob to watch.
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But when I first saw the purple and gold hardcover of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, spangled with stars and looking weighty and solemn and magical, I couldn't resist picking it up.
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To loud cheers and applause, actor Brandon Niederauer performed "The Star-Spangled Banner", marking the anniversary of when the late rock star played his famed rendition of the U.S. national anthem at Woodstock on Aug.
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For instance, a gay military couple embraces in a train station, a transgender cheerleader poses in red, white and blue gear and a Sikh man prays in a gurdwara while wearing a star-spangled turban.
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Just one week ago, the "What About Us" singer relied on her son to help her get into the Super Bowl spirit as she performed "The Star Spangled Banner" despite being sick with the flu.
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Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Powell sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" as 240 military officers held the nation's flag on a night when the home team hosted the 28th annual Salute to the Military night.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started what has become a controversy when he began the gestures against injustice and police brutality by refusing to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" during pre-season games.
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Prescott told reporters that the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" before games is not the right time to protest social injustice, but added that he has nothing against those who kneel during the anthem.
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Trump has frequently criticized NFL players who protested racial injustice and police brutality by taking a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games last season, calling for them to be fired or otherwise punished.
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I hope for the day when America is advanced and enlightened enough to be secure in its commitment to the Constitution without the need to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" before sporting events at all.
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An ESPN Radio affiliate in North Carolina will not broadcast an upcoming East Carolina football game after it said some members of the school band "disgraced themselves" during a "Star-Spangled Banner" protest on Saturday.
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On Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys, including owner Jerry Jones, knelt before the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in solidarity with the hundreds players who took a knee over the weekend after Trump's remarks.
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Later, in 1970, Jimi Hendrix would deconstruct "Johnny B. Goode" as he had "The Star-Spangled Banner," reimagining Berry's masterpiece of Pop miniaturism as an Abstract-Expressionist explosion of drips, smears, and lashes of sound.
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As we ride the summer heat wave right into our favorite holiday of the season (the Fourth of July, of course), what better way to celebrate than with an over-the-top, star-spangled shake?
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San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protests when he refused to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" and others have followed suit, most recently Denver linebacker Brandon Marshall ahead of Thursday's season opener.
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That could be the reason we hold our hands over our hearts for the pledge of allegiance and "The Star-Spangled Banner": because that's what the Romans did as well when they did their salute.
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When "The Star-Spangled Banner" played to kick off the team's third preseason game against the Green Bay Packers on Friday, Kaepernick took a stand against racial injustice by sitting down during the national anthem.
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Jay-Z on NFL partnership: 'We've passed kneeling' That was December 2, 2015, nine months before Kaepernick infamously chose to sit during the "Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of his San Francisco 49ers taking the field.
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The Prez held his annual Super Bowl viewing party at Mar-a-Lago, and joined everyone else in the room -- standing for Demi Lovato's "Star Spangled Banner" rendition -- but his behavior was far from traditional.
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We got one half of the hip-hop duo, Rae Sremmurd, at Beauty and Essex Sunday night and asked him about Demi Lovato singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at next month's Super Bowl in Miami.
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Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists were thrilled by President Donald Trump's decision to sign two bills supporting their movement, and celebrated the "timely Thanksgiving gift" by playing the Star-Spangled Banner at a celebratory rally.
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When the ringmaster, Johnathan Lee Iverson, first saw the circus as a 9-year-old at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, he could have sworn that the spangled horses that galloped there were real unicorns.
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When we saw The Gap Band singer ... dude just felt like singing, and launched into the "Star-Spangled Banner" in front of an audience lined up for TSA ... and it was, pardon the phrase ... outstanding.
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Maida Heatter, whose cookbooks with recipes for star-spangled banana cake, brown sugar icing and other dessert fare earned her the nickname "the Queen of Cake," died on Thursday at her home in Miami Beach.
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Other Pink prop bets include whether she'll forget any of the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" ("No" at -700), and if the Eagles fan will wear her team's jersey during the performance ("Yes" at +170).
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When they're not posing in star-spangled wrestling singlets in front of burned-down schools (possible caption: "You make me wanna la la") these Fab Four are dealing with just as many insecurities as Cary is.
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The athletes, appearing to take a united stance against President Donald Trump's recent railing against NFL player Colin Kaepernick and other players kneeling during the "Star Spangled Banner," linked arms with each other at Wembley Stadium.
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Kaepernick sat through "The Star-Spangled Banner" several times before Wyche asked him to explain why, and Kaepernick has not stopped explaining it since, explaining and re-explaining it concisely and coherently and with startling patience.
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However, it gives players the option to sulk in the locker room as everyone else puts their hands over their hearts or, if they're in uniform, salutes the flag when the "Star-Spangled Banner" is sung.
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The real joke, of course, was that Bowie's cool came from his remaining true to himself—even under the layers of makeup and the sequin-spangled getups, his artistic impulses came from a place deep within.
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In lieu of the canceled Super Bowl ceremony, the White House hosted a "Celebration of America" in which God Bless America and the Star Spangled banner were played by the U.S. Marine Band and Army Chorus.
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After a somber rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," newly minted Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina kicked off the annual SMILEcon — an acronym for the Social Media Internet Law Enforcement conference — with a timely dad joke.
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Then there's John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who after medaling in the 200-meter dash in the 1968 Olympics, raised their hands in the black power salute on the podium while the "Star-Spangled Banner" played.
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The Sun-Sentinel reported that wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson sat on the bench while other players lined up for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before kickoff against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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The work, written in 1862, is a virtuosic collage of tunes including "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Yankee Doodle" that calls on the pianist to imitate the sounds of pealing bells and a military snare drum.
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He spent months blistering the NFL for allowing players to kneel in protest of social injustice during the national anthem, at one point suggesting those demonstrating during "The Star-Spangled Banner" didn't belong in the country.
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"The failure to rescue the U.S. hostages still haunts me," Brown wrote in his memoir "Star Spangled Security," according to the RAND Corporation, a think tank where Brown served on the board of trustees for decades.
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The president has frequently criticized NFL players who protested racial injustice and police brutality by taking a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games last season, calling for them to be fired or otherwise punished.
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" The line includes sports bras and leggings in star-spangled and camouflage designs pegged at Lahren's conservative female following that were designed in collaboration with Alexo Athletica, which is best known for "concealed carry yoga pants.
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Arriving on Hotflush on June 3, "Mother & Child" is a typically big room ready banger, an unabashedly emotional floor-filler that's set to have the spangled throngs weeping into their bottles of overpriced Evian with aplomb.
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At this year's race, I saw more American flag clothing than I've ever seen in one place, including a drunk man attempting to piss in an aluminum trough through a flap in his star-spangled onesie.
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After the Pledge of Allegiance and the "Star-Spangled Banner," speaker after speaker made no mention of Trump—or, for that matter, of Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Russian interference in the 2016 elections, #MeToo, or impeachment.
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Five days after that announcement, the Dallas Cowboys' owner, Jerry Jones, said his players must stand on the field for the playing of the "The Star-Spangled Banner," and not stay in the team's locker room.
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It was not the eye-catching accessories, including Lana Del Ray's star-spangled halo atop a custom Gucci gown and Hailee Steinfeld's purple boots, visible through a sky-high slit in her white Alexandre Vauthier sheath.
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Cap's patriotic costume and service to his country gave him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Man" but it was his presumed death and resurrection nearly 70 years later that transformed him into a modern American icon.
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Cookbooks In the world of baking cookbooks, the ones written by pastry chefs are glamorous things, filled with the caramel-spangled drama you would expect to see at the end of a 12-course tasting menu.
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President Trump stirred up an already-stirred-up hornet's nest when he gave his opinion of those players who choose to disrespect the flag by refusing to stand while the "Star-Spangled Banner" is being played.
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In an interview with Time magazine, Moore said that NFL players are violating a section of federal law that establishes "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem, and details proper respectful conduct during its performance.
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His most prized work is a 2017 commission by Ed Ruscha, "Our Flag," an update to one of Ruscha's perennial subjects that shows a star-spangled banner ripped and tattered — a striking comment on contemporary politics.
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He finally unleashes the hinted Star-Spangled Banner performance during the encore, only to cut it short and destroy his guitar while the crew tries to keep the stack of amplifiers he's thrown it into upright.
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The poll results also show a growing support for the protests during "The Star-Spangled Banner," with 51 percent of respondents saying that professional sports leagues should not require their athletes to stand for the anthem.
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He also writes a zany tour de force for the Bakst character: in one scene, she inserts herself into the football pre-game show and delivers "The Star-Spangled Banner" as an ornate bel-canto showpiece.
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Kat DeLuna At 20 years old, the singer took on the honor of belting out "The Star-Spangled Banner" — but not without experimenting with her vocal range and flubbing the lyrics at a 2008 Dallas Cowboys game.
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Google explains that the doodle, which depicts wild animals native to North America living their best lives under a star-spangled sky, is an homage to conservationist Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service.
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FROM PEN: Why Nicole Kidman Loves Living in Nashville: 'I Was Meant to Go There' Urban joins his tour mate and fellow country music singer Carrie Underwood in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a Predators game.
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On Wednesday, the league announced new guidelines that require players who are on the field during the anthem to stand, but allows individuals who decide to skip the "Star-Spangled Banner" to remain in the locker room.
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Under the proposal, the home team would decide whether both sides should be on the field during the Star Spangled Banner -- and if so, 15-yard penalties could be handed out if anyone kneels, Sports Illustrated reported.
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Paxton was standing on the field, hand on his heart, listen to the end of the National Anthem before the game, when the eagle released during "The Star-Spangled Banner" decided to introduce himself to the pitcher.
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The National Football League said in May it would require any player who did not wish to stand during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games to stay off the field until the ceremony ended.
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Stevens and Cat Martino made their own statement by singing a beautifully morphed version of "The Star-Spangled Banner"—a mainstay of Stevens' live performances for over a decade—and dedicating it to the commander-in-chief.
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But there's also the possibility that the titles "Star Spangled Boner" and "Dicks of Death" are puns on the names of John Boehner and Dick Cheney, a calling-out of the incompetent and malevolent in political life.
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Rude as it is, "Claws" is at heart a spangled fantasy, about women building power in a crappy system, sashaying from strip club to strip mall, from tawdry oxycodone mills to the mansions bought with their proceeds.
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NFL players have been taking a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner," following the lead of former pro quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who pioneered the anthem protests last year over what he said was social and racial injustice.
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His remarks appeared to refer to Colin Kaepernick -- formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, but currently without a team -- who last year drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.
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That argument drew outrage from some conservative news outlets, as well as a more scholarly rebuttal from Mark Clague, a musicologist at the University of Michigan and the founding board chairman of the Star Spangled Music Foundation.
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At the end of "Iolanta," the opera that precedes it on a double bill that opened here on Friday, footmen carry off the spangled tree that's been a symbol of warmth and prosperity onstage from the start.
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It's the Sunday afternoon of Stagecoach, and I'm standing beneath a Fireball canopy of sweaty, star-spangled bodies grinding to "Humble" while a pair of Trump and Blue Lives Matter flags wave overhead in the waning sunlight.
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So, with Knight at the center of the NFL controversy -- we asked the former Destiny's Child singer what she would have done if the NFL asked her to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the big game.
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When "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before the first game of the 2018 N.F.L. season, between the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles, the defending champions, in September, Michael Bennett knew that he was being watched.
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AT 19733 minutes 21973 seconds As controversy storms around athletes kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner," it is important to acknowledge that this inspiring gesture resonates within a longer history of articulating dissent with the national anthem.
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At ground zero, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was sung by Kassidy Rieder, a senior at the Long Island School for the Arts who is in her third year in the pre-college program at the Juilliard School.
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That's when the sunscreen-drenched crowd falls silent, the cacophony of loud voices replaced by a patriotic medley blasted from the boardwalk's loudspeakers — "The Star-Spangled Banner'' followed by Kate Smith's famous version of "God Bless America.
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The entire Dallas Cowboys team, including owner Jerry Jones, linked arms and knelt on the playing field for a moment before the game, but then stood respectfully as the "Star-Spangled Banner" was performed by singer Jordin Sparks.
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Jones' Twitter coverage of the Games thus far has been can't-miss entertainment: from star-spangled outfits to hilarious motivational chants, the actress' social media presence has even earned rave reviews from Olympians themselves, like Kerri Walsh Jennings.
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Standing next to 4×100-meter relay teammates Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Caeleb Dressel, the 21-year-old broke down when "The Star-Spangled Banner" played as the American flag was raised in the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
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In the moment their fists took center stage in front of hundreds of millions of people, silently denouncing racism as people sat and watched, the American flag, the Olympic rings, and "The Star Spangled Banner" providing the backdrop.
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No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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It is thus my belief that "The Star-Spangled Banner" encompasses all Americans; not only is Key's use of the word "freemen" surprisingly inclusive, but because nation and song have both changed — if imperfectly — since it was written.
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There aren't many people who could make wearing a rose-pink fully spangled Dolce & Gabbana tea-length gown look as effortless as a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, but Sarah Jessica Parker is definitely among them.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's sideline protest during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a National Football League pre-season game last week has generated criticism from current and former NFL stars.
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Star Swain, a 34-year-old assistant principal from Tallahassee, Florida, turned heads with her rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" while visiting Washington, D.C. The incredible video has since earned more than 13 million views on Facebook.
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Rapinoe was the first white professional athlete to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" in protest of police brutality, and she made headlines for refusing to sing the national anthem during the women's World Cup earlier this year.
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Throughout her controversial career, the over-the-top comedian has screeched "The Star-Spangled Banner," grabbed her crotch on national TV and declared that, just like Donald Trump and rapper Kanye West, she too possesses amazing "dragon" energy.
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The new policy came in response to a series of on-field protests that began in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the Star Spangled Banner to protest racial injustice and police misconduct.
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Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback and now adviser to the Nike shoe company, made himself famous by kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner," and created controversy by attacking Betsy Ross, an abolitionist who stitched together our first flag.
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What if, instead of "abracadabra," we used a verse of "The Star Spangled Banner," and what if the magic power the audience would cheer for was the freedom to burn the very flag that we loved so dearly?
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Even as it conducted its store-closing sale, it played "The Star-Spangled Banner" over the public address system before allowing customers inside, as it has done since the 444-day Iran hostage crisis that began in 1979.
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The "Star-Spangled Banner" itself has been a subject of that struggle since shortly after Francis Scott Key, a slave-owning Washington lawyer, wrote it to commemorate an American victory over the British during the War of 1812.
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For star-spangled denim-heads and bearded coastal creatives, the White Oak label long served as a badge of American honor — and as an entry ticket into a subculture united around a love of classic American clothing brands.
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Why the identical twins Andrew and Kevin Atherton were wheeling shirtless above the stage floor, exchanging burning looks as they writhed in the spangled night was a phenomenon that Cirque du Soleil's "Paramour" never even tried to explain.
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" Trump kicked off the morning after the Cowboys' 28-17 victory with double-barreled tweets, noting both the anger that fans in Glendale exhibited but also appearing to praise the Cowboys for standing during "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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" During that period, cans and bottles of the beer will be adorned with U.S. icons such as the Statue of Liberty, phrases from the Pledge of Allegiance and lyrics from "America the Beautiful" and "The Star Spangled Banner.
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Another is the short-lived Pauline Boty (1938-1966), represented by a single small collage that consists of cutout portraits of some of her heroes (Rimbaud, Marilyn Monroe, Proust) fixed like Byzantine saints on a sequin-spangled gold ground.
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By the time they left well into the evening, 100,000 balloons were ready to descend from the heights of the Wells Fargo Arena, drowning the Democratic party's presidential nominee and upper crust in a sea of star-spangled latex.
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"Captain America: Civil War," which plays more like an "Avengers" chapter given the presence of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man than a star-spangled follow-up, did beat the slump, going on to earn over $1.1 billion globally.
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Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just opened a Woodstock 50 exhibition with rare prints, performance outfits, video footage, original signage and artifacts including the guitar strap Jimi Hendrix used while playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the festival.
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The narrator, a nameless Pakistani-American, tells a friend of his happiness at being greeted with a simple "welcome home" at the airport; those two warm words move him in a way that "The Star-Spangled Banner" does not.
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Saba Ahmed, the head of the Republican Muslim Coalition and a commentator known for appearing on Fox News in a star-spangled headscarf, said it was a tactical error for Muslims to flee the party in the Bush era.
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Fully stock your star-spangled celebration with 12 essential items that can be ordered online for fast delivery right to your doorstep — because these days, everything from bulk cookout fare to festive tableware is easier than ever to acquire.
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Taking the court at Los Angeles' Staples Center in a tight, black dress, the 22018-year-old "A Little Work" singer performed a sultry rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," reworking the tune to more of a jazzy beat.
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From the first notes issued by the Continental Congress to the latest star-spangled bills released by the Federal Reserve, the history of money in America is laced with rebellion, propaganda, and—of course—lots and lots of wealth.
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Imagine a near-naked cross-dressing Luke Skywalker playing an electric violin, which is both on fire and shaped like a Tatooine Landspeeder, breaking in to the Star Wars theme after opening with a Hendrix-esque Star Spangled Banner.
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Here's a quick survey: Note that all of the sideline shots show players and staff — including Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, in the fourth screengrab in this set — linking arms during the "Star Spangled Banner," while some players also knelt.
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He makes a kind of femininity into spangled bling that is another kind of coin of the realm, thus making the case for a kind of power that I think often gets confused with appreciation for one's own body.
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" Stallworth, who previously played for the New Orleans Saints and several other NFL teams, criticized a new policy that would allow the NFL to "impose appropriate discipline" on players who do not stand for the "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Rapinoe knelt during "The Star Spangled Banner" before her team's game against Thailand in Columbus, Ohio, signaling her support for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes who have done the same over the past few weeks.
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So why did so many in my generation, and those who came before us, rise to salute the flag, stand to proudly sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" and fight for the freedoms that had yet to come to us?
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The sight of an arena football player too good for his team, and maybe too good for this league, getting psyched as if Whitney Houston herself was singing The Star-Spangled Banner before Super Bowl XXV was oddly moving.
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In a section on her unforgettable performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl, we learn that she listened to the music director Rickey Minor's arrangement exactly once before recording the song in a single take.
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Tour buses bring fans back across the street where a series of exhibits survey the King's service in the Army, his influence on entertainers like Elton John and Bruce Springsteen, and his collections of showy cars and spangled jumpsuits.
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A "Clocks"-"Fix You"-"Up & Up" medley was the soundtrack as a screen played clips from historic Super Bowl performance moments, including the aforementioned MJ, along with Whitney Houston's "Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV, and many others.
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The flag known as the "Star-Spangled Banner," now in the National Museum of American History here, for example, did not become part of the Smithsonian Institution until 1907, more than 90 years after it flew over Fort McHenry.
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But after President Trump last week attacked the N.F.L. and its owners for letting players kneel or sit during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, the networks chose to show the anthem before their games in Week 3.
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Yes, you can do a great tour of conventional American history — from Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" during the War of 153, to the "real" Washington Monument (it predates the one in D.C.).
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The late-night host took some time Tuesday to address how he became a part of the national conversation after The Black Eyed Peas singer's much maligned rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the NBA All-Star game.
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They had accused the owners of colluding to keep them out of the league because they had knelt during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at games, an action that prompted other players to do so as well.
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"Aperture," in memory of Diane Arbus, for example, begins with the question: What would the knife-grinder want with a broken spoon and a pair of melons, a Japanese bowl spangled with an iron glaze and three dried lilies?
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We've been treated or subjected (depending on your outlook) to Taylor's perfectly Pinterested and Instagrammed tributes to the "Star-Spangled Banner" since at least 2013 and now, at a time when her patriotism is most vital, she has nothing to say?
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In footage first posted by TMZ that has been picked up by a number of outlets, the couple could be seen sitting with their oldest daughter in the stands as Demi Lovato sang "The Star Spangled Banner" ahead of the kickoff.
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In fact, when the Mother Monster took to the field Sunday at Levi's Stadium, the current Academy Award nominee gave one of the best performances of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that the Super Bowl has seen, carefully balancing comfort and reverence.
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Former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick — who has remained unsigned since opting out of his 49ers contract in March — triggered a movement last year when he began kneeling during the "Star-Spangled Banner" to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
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Our star-spangled highlights are Rixo x Laura Jackson's chevron striped number, a tea dress for after dark; Warehouse's fringed co-ord, a modern take on the '20s flapper; and (again from Warehouse) a backless silver gown dripping in contemporary glamour.
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"The Shield" that would not allow players to commemorate slain police officers in Dallas has no firm policy on whether it's OK or not if someone in an NFL uniform decides to chill during the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Kaepernick protested by sitting during the anthem, while those who have taken up his cause have opted to take a knee as "The Star Spangled Banner" plays and the protest is known known as taking a knee because of that.
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As The Washington Post reports, Jeff Popick—who wrote the U.S.A Freedom Kids' hit "Freedom's Call"—plans to sue the Trump campaign for not living up to the spoken agreement made between the star-spangled children's group and the campaign.
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The Star-Spangled Banner has stayed the same, with the same words and the same tune for 87 years, but a Hawaiian musician reinvented the song while performing the song at a football game in Hawaii and left quite an impression.
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Rapinoe was leaving D.C. early Thursday morning -- when we asked her about the Washington Spirit playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" while the teams were still in their locker rooms in an effort to keep her from "hijacking" the pre-game tradition.
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The short vid went up on SW's Snapchat moments ago ... and while it doesn't quite live up to the bootyful star-spangled outfit she wore on Snap some months back -- we assure you of one thing: You won't be disappointed.
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Donald Trump's knowledge of the national anthem is being questioned by critics after the president sang some — but not all — of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the opening ceremony at the College Football Playoff National Championship game in Atlanta on Monday.
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The name Serpentskirt may sound familiar to Cocteau Twins aficionados, and the Brooklyn duo that bears it do wear some of that influence on their spangled sleeves (most noticeably in the gloomy atmosphere and ghostly harmonized vocals they magick up).
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Do we not get our chance to remember that we were once capable of burning the seat of power of the mighty United States, if only quickly, fruitlessly and (if I remember "The Star-Spangled Banner" correctly) mostly at night?
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If your heart strings weren't already sufficiently pulled, then you could watch and listen to another former Cuban dissident who played the Star Spangled Banner on his violin as he once did as a child in Havana at great personal risk.
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The swift change to the law was made with none of the fierce public debate about free speech and patriotic duty that erupted in the United States after football players knelt in dissent when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played.
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So was the fact that although both women wore all black — this is, after all, Sondheim — Ms. Errico's version was a calf-length dress with lacy sleeves and Ms. Collins's involved a heavily spangled jacket setting off her platinum bouffant.
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In addition to Mr. Pence's statement and tweets, the press office released a photo of Mr. Pence in a suit, standing with his hand over his heart for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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Editorial Observer The lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key embraced the pop cultural tastes of his day when he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" to commemorate an American victory over the British at Baltimore during the War of 1812.
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And it is worth remembering about that comedian's brilliantly demented public persona that no matter how wild her ratted-out hair and spangled mini-dresses, Ms. Diller's clothes seemed pretty tame in comparison to what came out of her mouth.
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The sports venture, led and funded entirely by WWE founder and chairman Vince McMahon, will prevent the players from kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" and stop them from making any kind of personal statement while the anthem is being played.
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But Trump has previously singled out former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who drew national attention last year for protesting police brutality, especially aimed at African-Americans, by refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.
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" Only one player reportedly knelt during the three national anthems for the Thanksgiving Day games, with New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon continuing his protest of racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the "The Star-Spangled Banner.
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The actresses Tracee Ellis Ross and Lily Collins were in neon traffic-cone dresses from the February fall collection, the former a hot pink strapless synthetic plastic bubble; the latter a spangled Watteau tea dress under a highlighter orange bustier.
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The NFL rule that was passed in May forbid players from sitting or taking a knee if they are on the field or sidelines during "The Star-Spangled Banner," but allowed them to stay in the locker room if they wish.
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At least three Miami Dolphins players took a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before their game against the New Orleans Saints in London, while Saints players took a knee before the anthem began but then stood as it was played.
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The bump and wail of "Rock'n Roll," the relentless, spangled spinning of "Burnin'" and the aggressive feedback loop of "Rollin' & Scratchin'" all serve as reminders of Daft Punk's raucous edge, as well as their early fondness for the apologetic apostrophe.
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Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch opted to sit during the playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Saturday's preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals, making him the latest pro athlete to protest racism and police brutality by not standing during the national anthem.
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Faced with a looming global threat, Americans during World War II flocked to pick up stories of star-spangled heroes like Wonder Woman and Captain America, who thumped Axis agents (and Hitler himself!) while spreading the gospel of justice and righteous empowerment.
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe has also declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America — a gesture that Trump has also publicly criticized.
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe, 33, has also declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America — a gesture that Trump has also publicly criticized.
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On Sunday, more than 40 players, many of them on the 49ers, sat or knelt on one knee during renditions of the "Star-Spangled Banner" in the 15 National Football League games, compared with 180 players in all 16 games a week earlier.
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Now, under the Dust, it was forgotten, as humanity's brighter lights spangled the Earth like coals — the marks of ten billion mortal souls rushing into an unstable future that demanded one tenuous fix after another — a made world in debt to itself, immiserated.
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So, it is clear that Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a man whom I and countless other Americans of all races were brainwashed into believing was a hero, was nothing of the sort; he was a slaveholding racist.
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" Backlash over the comment rekindled a national debate over NFL players, mostly African-Americans, who have broken with tradition by taking a knee or raising their fists during "The "Star-Spangled Banner" to protest racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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As the years ticked by into the '23s, Wonder Woman, no longer a radical outlier among superheroes, went on adventures with genies and got a makeover, swapping out her original ensemble for what was essentially a star-spangled cape and bathing suit.
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In order to bring in every ad dollar during game broadcasts, the networks cut away for a commercial during "The Star-Spangled Banner" and then come back and say the anthem, which you did not hear, was brought to you by another sponsor.
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"When Jimi Hendrix got on the stage and performed 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' it was not clear whether he was trying to sonically bind the counterculture to a new version of America, or rend America in half," Mr. Morello says in the video.
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" She has previously refused to place her hand over her heart during the national anthem in protest of his administration's policies and police brutality, and during this year's tournament stood silent, refraining from joining her team in singing the "Star-Spangled Banner.
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"If you want to take a knee or sit during our 'Star-Spangled Banner': Call me a racist cuz I'm not [politically correct] and think you have to remind me that black lives matter," Kid Rock said during his address, MLive reported.
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And the burgers' pink glare, the fat bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our colon was still there; O say does that carb-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the sat fats of the brave?
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And most startling to a sheltered white teenager in the South, the 2200-meter sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists on the medal stand during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" to protest the treatment of black Americans. Oct.
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By the early 20th century, African-Americans were already turning their backs on the "Star-Spangled Banner" in favor of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — known as the Negro national anthem — written by James Weldon Johnson and his brother, John Rosamond Johnson.
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Miami's anthem policy comes after the N.F.L.'s decision in May that teams would be fined if players did not stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" while on the field; players are also allowed to stay in the locker room during the anthem.
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With a head full of bling-spangled reveries and a notebook full of rhymes, Patti (to use her most common nickname) hones her skills and indulges her dreams with her friend Hareesh (Siddharth Dhananjay), a pharmacist whose nom de mike is Jheri.
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Mr. Burck and I have chatted at the Trump Grill in the lobby, where he sits in his spangled underwear taking a cocktail break with his wife, Patricia Cruz, who immigrated to America illegally from Mexico and is also a Trump supporter.
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There I was, a Yankee of Indian extraction who had always dismissed country music without a second listen, tearing through Nashville's Lower Broadway — swaying along to cover bands at Tootsie's and Robert's Western World and perusing star-spangled cowboy gear at Boot Country.
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Fashion Review PARIS — One day you're in Washington, looking out over the Mall at a sea of red baseball caps and yellow rain ponchos as Jackie Evancho sings "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the moment many people thought would never come finally arrives.
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Trump, a Republican, escalated his feud with the National Football League in a Twitter post asking if the league should get tax breaks while some athletes kneel in protest when the "Star-Spangled Banner" is played at the start of each game.
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The singer performed at Clinton's Radio City Music Hall rally in N.Y.C. on Wednesday in a sexy Uncle Sam-inspired suit: a red star spangled vest (with an "H" emblazoned on the lapel), a matching bustier and a pair of wide-leg blue stripped pants.
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I remember going for a drink with James Endicott on the last day of work before Christmas 2002, and Pete Doherty and Carl Barat from The Libertines turned up having signed to Rough Trade that day, in quite a spangled state as you would expect.
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"From Valley Forge to Vietnaaam//9-11 to Afghanistan//that star spangled banner does yet wave" and "I stand up for the flag, take off my hat for Old Glory" are now sentiments you can hear set to the country twang of a guitar.
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Just as "The Star Spangled Banner" reached its crescendo Tuesday night, most of the them dropped to one knee to join the anthem protests that have spread through the sports world in objection to police brutality and the unequal treatment of racial minorities in America.
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America was in the midst of a star spangled celebration of its bicentennial when The New York Times announced the arrival of a dashing new business leader who "looks ever so much like Robert Redford" and was the talk of the local real estate community.
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I understand the argument – though I disagree with it – that when football players began kneeling or raising a fist during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" two years ago they felt they were making some white Americans aware of the problems of racial discrimination.
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FROM PEN: Nina Dobrev Without Makeup Is Just as Beautiful as Nina Dobrev with Makeup She also notably stripped and took a dive in a pool after the Academy Awards, taking off her custom translucent and spangled one-shoulder Atelier Versace gown before jumping in.
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Kaepernick, a former starter who led San Francisco to the 2013 Super Bowl but has since been demoted to backup, said he sat on the bench during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" to make a statement about racial injustice in the United States.
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"The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission that I don't feel is in the best interests of America," Kraft said, referring to players' kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner," according to the Times.
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He fought for their right to protest -- including a tour in Afghanistan -- and if fans want to attack players for protesting, rather than understand why they're taking the knee, he no longer feels "welcome" delivering "The Star-Spangled Banner" to them on Sundays, he said.
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The 36-year-old singer, best known for her 2014 single "Fight Song," restarted her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" twice at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, minutes before the NWSL soccer game between the Utah Royals and the Chicago Red Stars.
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The protests during "The Star Spangled Banner" have spread since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said he chose to stay seated during the national anthem before a National Football League pre-season game in August and then opted to kneel in the next game.
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Outside the chain-link fence between the lot and the field, Escovedo removed his hat and stood still for "The Star-Spangled Banner," and then, as the Mexican anthem played, we bought, for eight dollars apiece, a pair of third-row seats behind the plate.
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Debate over pro athletes protesting during the playing of the National Anthem has raged since last year, when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a way of protesting police brutality and racial inequality in America.
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The contracts included a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by a member of the National Guard, an opportunity for 80 National Guard members to hold a large American flag on the field and recognition of the Army National Guard's birthday, among other events.
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Before American and Canadian teams battle on the ice in hockey, Americans and Canadians proudly join to share "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada," which joyously proclaims how Canadians stand with glowing hearts for a glorious land that will forever remain strong and free.
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As the players were shedding their uniforms and dipping their feet into buckets of ice, Kyrie Irving, James Jones and Jordan McRae trilled a dawdling rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," uncoiling the lines with waggish emotion as their teammates looked on and laughed.
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Those in the seats up at the back stand in unison when he plays out Hendrix's Woodstock "Star-Spangled Banner," half out of an odd patriotism, half out of the expectation that the other five members of Prophets of Rage are about to walk out.
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The Star Spangled Banner trailled off at "and the home of the..." and then the banners dropped, reading "legends never sleep," and fans formed black and red stripes from their kits—before the visage of Freddy Krueger rose from the ground. Spooky. Spooky-good.
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Brands like Spotify, Red Bull and Propercorn have all offered students the sound systems, refreshments, decor and DJs to elevate their parties to new heights, basically in the hope that some spangled sociology student will unintentionally advertise for them in her new profile picture.
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The girl's protest, which echoed those of American football players who have knelt at games during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," made headlines in the same week that a national newspaper printed a cartoon depicting the tennis player Serena Williams with exaggerated lips.
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She was resplendent in a gold metallic trouser suit, the last note in a parade of slinky, sequin-spangled disco dresses; tailored Melton tweeds over daisy florals and nautical stripes; cashmere corps de ballet warm-up wraps; patchwork leather coats and Mongolian lamb chubbies.
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What we need then, to create something that feels a bit like genuine harmony rather than the spangled proclamations of being-at-one that ring out in smoking areas and living rooms across the world at sunrise weekend after weekend, is someone like Sheeran.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. — As Lady Gaga sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Super Bowl 50 kicked off on Sunday, Don Cooke walked into the lounge of the Thayer Hotel on the grounds of the United States Military Academy here and put his hat over his heart.
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I'm sure there are exceptions, but most of the stories go like this: Fergie gave the "Star Spangled Banner" a sexy spin, she sang a few or many notes off-key, some of the basketball players made faces, then everyone on Twitter slammed her for it.
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The Captain films, starring Chris Evans as the spangled hero, may not be the most giddily self-enthralled modern Marvel series (that'd be the Iron Man movies), nor the most narratively epochal (that honor, as occasionally dubious as it might seem, belongs to the Avengers films).
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Sammy Hagar The Van Halen frontman was invited to belt out "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of the San Francisco Giants' World Series Ring Ceremony in 2011 with the aid of guitarist Joe Satriani — but fumbled through a few of the song's verses at the event.
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The singer bursts into tears over her glittery acoustic guitar wearing the spangled black dress from her "Fearless" world tour, back in the days when she was still just a country girl who wore her hair in long curls and her song was a slamming screen door.
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The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who has sat during the "Star-Spangled Banner" in all three of his team's preseason games, told reporters he will refuse to stand until there is a "significant change" in the oppression of people due to their race in the United States.
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Should you have the means, opt for a famous Italian luxury brand's star-spangled sunnies (rhymes with Smoochie), but just know: these large crystal-studded frames are cheap, eye-catchingly glam, and big enough to hide the tears you're shedding over your poor late husband Giacomo.
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Extending gloved hands skyward, US athletes Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) stare downward during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200-meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct.
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But this year, she decided to switch up her usual style M.O. a bit, telling Vogue that she wanted to "celebrate my natural hair by allowing it to be wild and free," and wearing her curls with a custom translucent and spangled one-shoulder Atelier Versace gown.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday that owners who gathered for the league's annual spring meeting in Atlanta voted to fine teams with players who do not stand while on the field or sidelines during "The Star Spangled Banner," according to The New York Times.
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The decision by NFL team owners this week to allow the league to levy fines on their teams when players kneel or otherwise act disrespectfully on the field during playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" leaves me with mixed feelings, particularly as we approach Memorial Day.
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Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee tell TMZ Sports ... they REALLY want the Dodgers to come back and take down the Red Sox and if they can sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before one of the home games, it would energize the hell out of the Blue Crew.
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WATCH: Robert Downey Jr. Hilariously Battles with Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo Over Their Facial Hair The predictions of Captain America's death isn't a shock, as Chris Evans all but confirmed his departure from the star-spangled hero after 8 years in an Instagram post in October.
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Kaepernick, who used to be one of the most dynamic players in the National Football League (NFL), re-entered the spotlight as one of its most controversial over his use of the "Star-Spangled Banner" as a platform to protest against police brutality and racial inequality.
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She's mighty reminiscent of The Force Awakens' Rey: a tough survivalist with endless mechanical aptitude, a grudging truce with the other indigenous scroungers, a weapon that's more or less a quarterstaff spangled with tech scraps, and a chip on her shoulder about the fate of her family.
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When José Feliciano sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1968 World Series and when Marvin Gaye performed it at the 1983 All-Star Game, those performances were perceived by some as forms of protest, because of the ways in which they reinterpreted the original version.
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