Word: impishness
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Simply put, McFerrin’s musical ability is absolutely stunning. He weds prodigious theoretical background to an impossibly eclectic knowledge of genres and an almost perfect instrument to an impish personality. He weaves a sonic experience this is merely unique on recordings but unparalleled in person. When singing solo, McFerrin leaps from rumbling, nearly sub-sonic depths to breathy, almost dog-whistle highs with alarming fluidity. He doesn’t need accompaniment, because he simultaneously functions as his own bass, treble and percussion sections all in one. To that alternately yodelling and resonant presence, he adds sound effects...
...leads: Amitabh Bachchan, who lit up the screens in the '70s and '80s; Shah Rukh Khan, who pulled in the audiences in the '90s; and current heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. Each is paired with an equally stellar actress: Bachchan with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor, screen goddess of the MTV generation...
...broad learning and boundless intellectual curiosity, of impeccable integrity, of impish wit and gently clever pen,” Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans said in an email message...
...probably be pleased. He was a revolutionary by nature, an impish iconoclast, and a discovery like this, which - if it turns out to be correct - challenges the very nature of how we?ve assumed the universe looks and acts, would have been very exciting to him. As it is to today?s physicists - this study is going be combed over and combed over, and it?s going to provoke an enormous amount of discussion. If it holds up, it could change the way we look at the universe, and Einstein was always interested in that...
DIED. HANK KETCHAM, 81, creator of the impish cartoon character Dennis the Menace and his crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Ketcham conceived the strip in October 1950 after his own mischievous four-year-old, named Dennis, caused his exasperated mother to exclaim to Ketcham, "Your son is a menace!" (Father and son were later estranged.) In 1951 Ketcham began drawing the strip, which ran for 50 years in 1,000 newspapers and 48 countries...