Word: foghorned
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Zydeco, Chenier's musical style, sounds initially like rhythm and blues, mostly New Orleans with a pinch of primitive Chicago. Sometimes the saxophones break honkingly loose, sometimes they lay in one foghorn-like riff through an entire song. But the real musical underlay is Cajun, a musical cross-fertilization of Acadian immigrants driven from Nova Scotia by the British and Africans brought to rural Louisiana by slavery. Which explains both Zydeco's compelling rhythmic patterns and the fact that several of Chenier's numbers are sung in Cajun French...
...lunchtime, and the natty old gent in the gray suit sits down, lights up a cigar and says, in that famous foghorn voice, "I must tell you a good lie-a real good lie." It is the story of a comedian who dies backstage at the end of his act while the audience continues to applaud, thinking he is still in the giant clown's shoes they see protruding from beneath the curtain. It is a good lie, one of the best, but is there any truth to it? "All my stories are basically honest," he answers. "But from...
...Wurf's foghorn voice offers even more hope. In the 14 years that he has been president of the AFSCME, he has quadrupled its membership to just over 1 million, and signed up people thought to be particularly difficult to organize: white-collar workers, women, blacks. His main pitch: an insistence that union membership is the passport not just to better pay but also to "dignity" for workers who, he contends, were long "at the mercy of irresponsible politicians...
Died. Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, 88, outspoken master basketball coach whose foghorn voice won him his nickname, and whose dedication to the sport won him the honorary title of Mr. Basketball; in Lawrence, Kans. Allen's basketball career began while he was an undergraduate at the U. of Kansas, where he played for the inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith. After medical school (osteopathy) and several years of coaching other Midwestern teams, Allen returned to Kansas and guided the Jayhawks to 24 conference championships. He retired in 1956, leaving a record (771 games won, 233 lost...
...somewhere in the channel, far away from the milky light of the town's houses, a foghorn drives the fishing boats off the rocky shore. The foggy air magnifies the sound of the waves, but deadens all other noise. When I stood on the edge of the rock seawall and called Francois's name, my voice was swallowed up in the damp...