Word: balladeering
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...Palin (in which Zardari called Palin "gorgeous" and said he'd like to hug her) has been must-see TV on local networks and has drawn tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube. While some laughed off Zardari's behavior--one station ran the clip with a romantic Urdu ballad sound track--many called it unbecoming of a head of state. One mosque leader issued a fatwa against him, calling his gushing un-Islamic...
...embarrassing" incident, while news anchors smirked after airing the footage. On Geo TV, a popular Urdu-language network, Zardari's words were delicately termed a "light and open exchange of remarks" before the short clip ran with blow-by-blow commentary. A subsequent version ran with an Urdu ballad playing in the background...
...cheated me and I can’t believe it”) to the origins of artistic inspiration (“I could steal a melody / Of this I am allowed”). The mood of her music covers a similarly broad spectrum, from the downright creepy ballad “Tower Song” to the more rock-pop feel of “Comin’ to Town.” Wainwright’s strangely poetic and profoundly female way of expressing the myriad dimensions of love, music, and self-expression recalls Mary Chapin Carpenter and Carol...
Richard Wright, the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died of cancer at age 65, didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the Moon. Shy, gentle and very private, Wright was proof that not every rock star feels the need to act like one. "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick...
...Meyer; out now After three volumes of slow-motion foreplay, the last novel in the mega-best-selling Twilight series finally tells us everything we always wanted to know about sex (and marriage) with vampires but were terrified to ask. It's a wild but satisfying finish to the ballad of Bella and Edward...