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Then began the musical education of Whitney Houston, courtesy of Cissy. "I taught her that you don't start loud," Cissy says, "because then you have no place to go. I taught her that songs tell a story, and you don't blare out a story. Control is the basis for singing: up, down, soft, sweet. And diction was very important." You can hear the fruit of Cissy's lessons even in a dance tune like How Will I Know. In the refrain "If he loves me,/ If he loves me not," Whitney really punches that final t. No wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...promos blare from radio, TV, newspapers, billboards and even subway placards. Ad spending by hospitals alone has surged from less than $50 million in 1983 to an estimated $500 million in 1986. The new imperative to attract customers may be unsettling, but it is making the health-care industry far more creative in letting consumers know what modern medicine can do for them. "Hospitals are struggling to learn all the competitive skills that businesses have known and applied for a long time," says Linda Bogue, an administrator at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hospitals Learn the Hard Sell | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...idea of liberty, and the New York Philharmonic will play in Central Park. On July 6, the closing ceremony in New Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra will croon while audiences swoon, and more than 12,000 immigrants will pledge undying allegiance to their new country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Party of the Century | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...from $2.50 to $5 to attend. As the time approached for the scheduled appearance of Marcos and his wife Imelda, helicopters flew overhead trailing red-white-and-blue smoke. Top- ranking Philippine show-business figures worked the crowd into a pleasantly receptive mood. Red-uniformed marching bands began to blare as the faithful chanted the President's campaign slogan, "Marcos pa rin!" (Marcos still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Standoff in Manila | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Music by the Gang of Four will blare in your ears as you look through marxist and third world literature in Revolution Books (1 Arrow...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Stacks | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

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