Word: falsetto
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...allegation that men had been feminized by eating beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol. The Tribuna do Povo reported that husky Sebastiao de Lima Serra of Aragatuba, 500 miles north of Rio, had suffered a "veritable metamorphosis, turning into a docile, falsetto-voiced creature of strange customs." Serra blamed his plight on the hormone-treated beef. Rio's state government proclaimed: "The necessary measures will be taken to end this evil...
Jumping High. Johnny gave San Francisco a little of everything. Dressed in a shadow-striped, tuxedo-style suit with smudgy white bow tie, he hit Looking at You with a rubbery, infectious beat, breathed out There Goes My Heart in one elastic sigh, quavered in a high, thin falsetto through My One and Only Love. His phrasing was fresh, his diction irreproachable, his dramatic sense unfailing. But it was the intimate, haunting quality of his voice that brought the audience alive. It has a kind of choirboy innocence hooked with a Cole Porter leer...
...golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...
Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into your arms"), becomes on the screen a colossal closeup in which the heroine's left nostril alone is large enough to park a jeep in. The dances, too, come far too close for comfort. Though Agnes de Mille revised them for the camera, they now seem more like sophomore...