Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dudley has fellows for art, outings, athletics and social events. The House also features an orchestra, literary events, a jazz band, a chorus and public-service opportunities...
...There is often a chorus at breakfast of 'B.J.' meaning I had just told a bad joke," the Baird professor of science says, admitting he is known around campus for his sense of humor as well as his chemistry know...
Barnum is one of the more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...
...longing sadness. The rest of "Seaside Weekend" seems like an exercise in controlled anger: beneath the carefree melody the chords are dark and help convey the sad regret implicit in the lyrics. The verse is restrained and Buni's vocals do most of the work. But at the chorus, the distortion comes on and the drums become more aggressive as MacDonald and Buni skillfully harmonize...
...relationships. The sugary tunes do become saccharine sometimes, as if they were a parody of pop history from the Byrds to R.E.M. After a while, the constant tambourine shaking and acoustic guitar strumming become grating. "A Fire," for example, relies heavily on pop love song conventions--the chorus dreamily addresses a lost lover over a slow, swaying beat and swirling chord progression...