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50 杰奎琳·肯尼迪的服饰展
DATE=6-15-2001
TITLE=AMERICA MOSAIC #822 - Jacqueline Kennedy Exhibit
BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson
HOST:
(Start at 0'56") Thousands of people are visiting a museum show in New York City about Jacqueline Kennedy. She was the wife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States. The (1) Metropolitan Museum of Art is showing many of the clothes she wore when she lived in the White House.
The exhibit will be open through July Twenty-Ninth. Then it will move to the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah Long tells us more about it.
ANNCR:
Jacqueline Kennedy was thirty-one years old when her husband was elected president in Nineteen-Sixty. She was a beautiful woman with dark hair and dark eyes. She loved to wear beautiful clothes. Many American women wanted to look like her. They copied her clothes and the way she wore her hair.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit begins with the clothes Missus Kennedy wore during the (2) presidential campaign. Then the visitor sees clothes from the White House years. These include travel clothes, everyday dresses and long gowns for official state dinners. Missus Kennedy liked to ride horses and her riding clothes also are shown.
All the clothes are simple. But the materials are rich. Jacqueline Kennedy often wore the colors of the spring season. She liked light green, blue, pink and yellow. Her (3) evening gowns were often (4) creamy white and shining. World famous designer Oleg Cassini created some of her finest clothes for important events. For example, he designed the dress she wore at her husband's (5) inauguration (6) ceremony. And he designed the black dress Missus Kennedy wore to meet Pope John the Twenty-Third.
Clothes are not the only objects in the exhibit. Music and videos play. News photos and magazine covers help tell the story of Missus Kennedy's clothes. They also help visitors remember her work in (7) restoring the White House and supporting the arts in America.
Jacqueline Kennedy's White House years came to an unexpected and terrible end in Nineteen-Sixty-Three when President Kennedy was (8) murdered. Missus Kennedy continued to be a leader in women's clothing fashions until she died in Nineteen-Ninety-Four. But she always said she wanted people to know there was a brain under her fine hats.
父亲节的由来
DATE=6-15-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #822 - Father's Day
BYLINE=Paul Thompson, Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'26") Our VOA listener question comes from China. Zhang Jianjun asks about Father's Day in the United States. That day is celebrated on the third Sunday in the month of June.
A woman named Sonora Louise Smart Dodd got the idea for Father's Day in Nineteen-Oh-Nine. She was living in Spokane, in the state of Washington.
Missus Dodd was listening to a (1) religious message about Mother's Day. She decided that fathers should be (2) recognized too. She especially wanted to honor her own father, William Jackson Smart. He had raised six children by himself after his wife died.
Missus Dodd asked for help from Spokane's religious leaders. She asked them to honor fathers on the first Sunday in June, her own father's birthday. But they did not give speeches honoring fathers until two weeks later, the third Sunday in June.
Sonora Dodd's campaign was successful. The first Father's Day in the United States was (3) celebrated in Spokane, Washington on June nineteenth, Nineteen-Ten. The idea of a day to honor fathers quickly spread to other parts of the country.
In Nineteen-Twenty-Four, President Calvin Coolidge said Americans should honor their fathers on the third Sunday in June. He said the day should be used to establish better relations between fathers and their children and to remind fathers of their responsibilities. As the years passed, efforts were made to make the day an official national holiday. In Nineteen-Seventy-Two, President Richard Nixon signed a law making Father's Day an official (4) observance.
This Sunday, American families will celebrate Father's Day. Many will gather for a special dinner or an outdoor (5) picnic. Families may do special things for Father on his day. They may prepare the foods he likes best, play his favorite games or attend a special show. And most children will give their fathers cards and gifts.
荣获12项托尼大奖的音乐剧《制片人》
DATE=6-15-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #822 - Tony Awards/The Producers
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 7'35") On June third, the American Theater Wing presented its yearly Tony awards. The awards honor the best plays and performances on Broadway in New York City.
The musical play "The (1) Producers won twelve Tony awards. That is the most Tony awards ever awarded to one show. They included awards for best musical show, best performance by an actor in a musical, best dancing and best (2) directing. Steve Ember tells us about the show.
ANNCR:
"The Producers was first presented as a movie in Nineteen-Sixty-Eight. It was written by Mel Brooks. He also wrote the stage show and its music.
"The Producers is about two men, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom. Max is an unsuccessful producer of Broadway shows. The shows are always bad and he loses money. Here the (3) chorus sings about it.
((CUT 1: OPENING NIGHT))
Leo Bloom is an (4) accountant. He records the profits and losses from Max's shows. But Leo really wants to be a producer of Broadway shows. He sings about it here.
((CUT 2: I WANNA BE A PRODUCER))
Max and Leo discover a way to gain lots of money. They (5) plot to get money from investors for a new Broadway show. They want to produce a show that will be so bad that it will close immediately. Then they will keep all the investors' money. They decide to produce a show about Adolph Hitler and (6) Nazi Germany. But the (7) audience loves the show because they think it is very funny. Instead of a failure, the show is a huge success.
That is what is happening in real life, too. People love The Producers because it is extremely funny. In fact, all the tickets have been sold until next year.
We leave you now with the final song from the show - The Producers. It is Mel Brooks's way of saying good-bye. (Stop at 12'28")
((CUT 3: GOOD-BYE))
(1) Metropolitan Museum of Art n. 城市艺术博物馆
(2) presidential [9prezi`denFEl] adj.总统的
(3) evening gown n. 晚礼服
(4) creamy [ `kri:mi] adj. 奶油色的
(5) inauguration [i9nR:gjU`reiF[n] n.就职典礼, 开幕式
(6) ceremony [ `serimEni] n.典礼, 仪式
(7) restore [ris`tR:] vt.恢复, 使回复, 归还
(8) murder [ `mE:dE] n.谋杀, 凶杀 vt.谋杀, 凶杀
(1) religious [ri`lidVEs] adj.信奉宗教的, 虔诚的, 宗教上的
(2) recognize [`rekEgnaiz] vt.认可, 承认, 公认, 赏识
(3) celebrate [ `selibreit] v.庆祝, 举行
(4) observance [Eb`zE:vEns] n. 惯例, 仪式, 庆祝
(5) picnic [ `piknik] n.野餐
(1) producer [prE`djU:s[] n. (电影)制片人
(2) directing [dai`rektiN] 导演
(3) chorus [ `kR:rEs] n.合唱, 合唱队, 齐声
(4) accountant [E`kaUntEnt] n.会计(员), 会计师
(5) plot [plRt] vi.密谋, 策划
(6) Nazi [ `na:tsi:] n.纳粹党人 adj.纳粹党的
(7) audience [ `R:djEns] n.听众, 观众
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