Word: flatness
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...those who haven't heard them, Jarreau's swooping melody lines and improvisational growls, grunts and inflections can verge on startling. Perhaps more than any popular vocalist alive, he embodies the notion of the voice as a pure instrument. "When he gets into a flat-out jazz setting," says Heckman, "he lets it all hang out. And when he gets into one of his extended scat solos on something like Take Five, even the instrumentalists' mouths drop open...
What moved you to write Hot, Flat, and Crowded? Louland Escabusa MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES...
...spent two years doing documentaries for the Discovery Channel on energy and the environment, and it was really after that I realized something big had happened. The "flat" in Hot, Flat, and Crowded is my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all over the world. If this many people are able to live like Americans, the energy and environment implications will be explosive...
...four dogs. All the animals and at least one of the humans had been shot before the house was set on fire. Police suspect arson because the fire appears to have started at three different parts of the property; when firefighters arrived on the scene, a horse trailer with flat tires, placed across the main entrance, hampered their access...
While most incomes remained flat, earnings for the richest Americans dropped, which often occurs just before or during a recession...