Word: duetting
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...down-home country with “Well Well Well.” This track displays Williams’s husky voice in all its glory, with Charles Louvin on back-up vocals. In between the two genres stands “Jailhouse Tears,” a fantastic duet with Elvis Costello, during which they engage in a comic sing-song dialogue about their turbulent love. “I just went to the corner to get a cold six-pack,” Costello says. Williams replies with a rasp: “You?...
...Know By Jessica Simpson; available now With its pat narratives, modern country excels at masking a lack of depth with a high gloss of feeling. So, good career move! Simpson navigates her twangy debut without incident until Dolly Parton shows up for a duet, clears her throat and reminds us to stop grading on a curve...
...synchronized swimming duet final on August 20, a pair of Chinese twins (Jiang Tingting and Jiang Wenwen), who came in fourth overall, performed a four-minute routine entitled "Little Birds Jumping and Flying Happily." During their turn, the Canadians blew water from their mouths, as if they were comely fountains spouting water. The Russians, who took the gold with straight 10s for technical merit, wore swimsuits with such variegated sequins that I failed to take note of what the two Anastasias (Ermakova and Davydova) were actually doing. I know immense physicality and endurance is involved in each routine, and that...
ALICIA KEYS and JACK WHITE to duet on James Bond theme...
...best is a rather outrageous theater piece by Maurice Bejart. In Arepo, Guillem performs five roles, with suitable costume changes, that display her personal range as well as the gamut of ballet's dramatic postures. She does the classic ballerina turn, the rehearsal-costume pas de deux, the androgynous duet, the music-hall floozy and, best of all, the woman-as-Mephisto, in a sexy getup that is mostly tights. She runs her career with great savvy. When things looked dull for a stretch in Paris last winter, she free-lanced a string of guest appearances, learning Giselle...