Word: bee
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...screen likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Firth, and the seemingly unseduceable Bill Murray. She uses it again in her latest film, “Match Point,” to charm the fidelity off of a married Irish tennis star. Sure, Scarlett has her other exquisite qualities (bee-stung lips, right-cheek mole, and curves that she describes as her “leading ladies”), but she pins your emotions down and half-nelsons them with the voice.When Johansson picks up the phone for an interview with The Harvard Crimson, she returns pleasantries with gruff, no-nonsense...
...35TH ANNUAL PIUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, book by Rachel Sheinkin, songs by William Finn...
...editorial staff is involved in some kind of Final Club (58 percent by my calculations—hey, I took “Counting People”), it is amazing what diversity in furry animals and mythological characters these respected, committed journalists are able to represent. A Fox? A Bee? An Owl? ‘Tis a veritable menagerie! Some plebeians in various other campus publications, and the vast majority of the plebeians with whom I chat, have derided “Scene” on the basis of its socioeconomic exclusivity. “Such haughtiness...
...have thought it was a gag. Sometimes he used it for fun, in high-pitched baby talk, as George Rock's comic falsetto had for the vocal in Spike Jones' 1947 novelty hit "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)." And the reading of "bay-yay-bee" in "Sherry," offers a few seconds of comedy-record crib noise...
...percussion was the soon-to-be-familiar Seasons combination of hand-claps and marching feet that lent a military air to the enterprise. The unique element, of course, was Valli's voice, stretching two words into ten aching, urgent syllables ("Sheh-eh-eh-eh-eh-er-ry bay-yay-bee") over half of the four-line chorus. / Sheh-eh-ry, can you come out tonight?" The falsetto is used to establish the singer as the proper young gent ("You better ask your mama. / Tell her everything is all right"). Then the tenor shout in the bridge reveals...