Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soul with a heart-riving version of Strange Fruit in which her voice cracks on the final note. By 1957, when she appears at the Newport Jazz Festival, her voice is slurred, and she has problems not only keeping up with accompanist Mal Waldron but even catching her breath...
...footed woman-girl who's constantly searching for an emotional anchor. She always manages to slip out of the committed relationships that might do her some good. Ironically, she finds solace in the least stable and trustworthy elements around her--namely Preacher Martin. Winger provides the film with a breath of fresh air, portraying the frustrated sojourner of myth who finally finds her home among the midst of lime butterflies...
...look at the person sitting next to you and realize he looks very much like the escaped convict with bad breath you read about in the morning paper. You look down, and you remember you are afraid of heights...
...Bach at the Salzburg Easter Festival. The conductor died before the performances, but she treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
There are other connected issues and problems facing our unsuspecting president, but at least some of them can be relegated to his newly appointed General Counsel, who I hope will introduce a breath of fresh air into the stale and musty Massachusetts Hall. Before the President can even focus his attention on other matters, he must first stop the bleeding on the financial side...