Word: altos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness. Not all her songs work, but the ones that do, such as Hestia (titled for the goddess of domestic activity), have an engaging, combative truthfulness. Keineg says she tries to lose herself in her music: "One of the best moments in all of life is when...
...setting created by the songs of Mary Chapin Carpenter is more haunting than your typical country-singer territory. Yet that's her landscape, and Carpenter looks fetching in it. Three years running, she has won a Grammy for wrapping her dusky alto around, respectively, Down at the Twist and Shout, I Feel Lucky and Passionate Kisses. She could easily make it four with her current single, the slow-rockin', Bonnie Raitt-ish Shut Up and Kiss Me, in which a take-charge woman whispers those five magic words to a too-well- behaved beau...
Harvard International Relations Council, Vice President of Strategy; Model United Nations, Charge D'Affaires; Harvard International Review, Design Editor; Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes, Alto, Tenor; 95.3 WHRB, Ness, Sports...
...enough to start a grass-roots rebellion -- and it has. Across the nation from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Palo Alto, California, environmentalists and their allies are taking aim at the noisy machines that rule the neighborhood from May to October. In Takoma Park, Maryland, for instance, free-lance writer Mike Tidwell founded Citizens Against Lawn Mower Madness, a group seeking to limit use of gas mowers in the town. Says Tidwell: "I'm committed to spreading the gospel of power-mower reform...
...black and white panels that have transformed the copper dome of the new city hall into a giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...