Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lilith he longed for." Jewel's is a fey, insidious charm, equal parts worldly and naive, where flaws--the crooked nose and crooked teeth she is so proud of--only betray an uncommon beauty. Then there is the improbable match of slender youth and that voice--an astonishingly versatile instrument ranging from soul-shattering yodels to the most eloquent of whispers to arch Cole Porter-ish recitative...
...continue to think that our legal system is the most marvelous instrument to interpret the constitution, which says that all men--which I interpret to mean women as well--are created equal," she says...
...rated all of it, and more. But Fogerty, on his own, seemed to be fighting demons. Adopting a fictitious band name, he made an album in 1973 called Blue Ridge Rangers (Fantasy) on which he sang heavy doses of country, bluegrass and R. and B. and played every instrument. He released a superb solo album under his own name two years later but got entangled in protracted legal bloodletting with the head of his former label, Saul Zaentz (who is also the much Oscared producer of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The English Patient...
...technique and, after a year, "I got fairly proficient. [Then] it became obvious that it was the wrong sound. It didn't match what was in my head. I finally realized it was the Dobro sound I was hearing." So he taught himself to play Dobro, an acoustic instrument that is played slide guitar-style on the lap. It turned out to be a 3 1/2-year undertaking. But he got it right that time...
...They will eat native food like Apache posole (hominy and meat), learn craftmaking and native dances, listen to ancestral tales told by native storytellers and take a medicinal-herb walk. The family of Doc Tate Nevaquaya, the famed Comanche flutist, will show them how to make the wood instrument on which he played the unwritten, melodic music of his ancestors. At the Sac and Fox Powwow, members of Vetter's group will talk with representatives of tribes from all over North America. And if their native hosts deem it appropriate, they may even experience a sweat-lodge ceremony...