Word: distinctives
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...Leiber?s parodies - "aural cartoons," Donald Clarke calls them - were also social criticism; they sounded black but could apply to alienated whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back...
Aaliyah describes her own sound as "street but sweet"; her tracks typically feature gentle vocals riding on a hard beat. Aaliyah's singing on her latest CD is more assertive than in the past and her melodic lines more distinct. The best songs--the thumping More Than a Woman and the elegant ballad It's Whatever--display a growing sophistication and emotional depth. One track, Never No More, is about a woman leaving a physically abusive relationship...
...Cambridge has its romantic possibilities. Yes, quite sure. (By the way, if the couple living one floor above me—somewhere in Dunster G, I believe—is reading this: three times on a Wednesday night is just plain showing off!) In fact, I get the distinct feeling that everyone around me, like the couples taking a peppy afternoon jog by the river or nauseatingly sipping from the same strawberry frappe at Bartley’s, must have received the name of his or her Mr. or Mrs. Right Now in the mail when summer began...
...this. You can see it in Lucy's species," Lovejoy says, but not in the bone Haile-Selassie found, because it's from a different toe. "What we can see [in the new discovery's foot] is that the base of the bone adjacent to the knuckle has a distinct angle, showing that the creature walked step after step after step with its heel off the ground, using the front of its foot as a platform...
...System updates are a tough sell to some agents; there?s still a distinct lack of reverence for the information technology side of the house. There are folks who are suspicious of computers and want to keep everything on paper, which is an understandable impulse. The FBI has always had a mystique about it. But the truth is it?s just another government bureaucracy. FBI agents hate it when you say that. But it?s true. This is the age of wired, paperless information - and the FBI needs to get up to speed...