Word: falsettos
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Like any other boss, he's never to blame. When a furious customer calls to complain that an important package has not arrived, this manager switches to falsetto, pretending to be a secretary, while he gets Federal Express on the other line to run an instant trace on the goods. (Did you know they could do that?) FedEx spoofs executive puffery while showing business customers everywhere that thanks to those little hand-held computers carried by its staff, it always knows precisely where every package...
...Captain Fantasy," from The Pod, was tremendous. Gene skipped the electronic effects in favor of vocal stunts, sliding his voice up into falsetto and filling the spaces between lines with fake echoes, mugging theatrically all the while. For all the irony and foolishness, he can actually sing. And Dean can really play guitar. That's kind of their dirty little secret, and it's what makes the whole rock star act work. It was like hanging out with your buddies while they play some songs in the garage, and you're all pretending it's the Meadowlands. Only there...
...said, "a debonair racist." He repeatedly called her "Miss Daisy." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who has written against Afrocentrism, is "a weakling . . . slick and devilish." White people, including "very nice white folks," "distort history in what I call racial pathology. They are as diabolical as that." Jeffries sang out falsetto imitations of various Jews and other whites, manic little strokes of mockery and emasculation. Through it all, he invoked the liberating powers of truth. When he was finished, the audience gave him a rather tired standing ovation. He had gone on for almost two hours...
...Amateur Night, a blend of revival meeting and The Gong Show, the Apollo audience is the true star. A favored artist -- say, the 300-lb. gent whose falsetto carries him through an all-stops-out aria from Dreamgirls -- wins whooping applause from this Colosseum of 1,500 self-appointed Caesars. Less appreciated acts -- the Whitney Houston clones and clumsy break dancers -- are pelted with catcalls until a figure known as the Executioner darts across the stage in clown garb and chases them into the wings. Usually the performers soldier on to the end, broken but unbowing. Surely, as starmaker...
...sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four-year term as mayor of Atlanta...