Word: intro
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...venue, so Foxx says he'll open the show with nominated songs sung aria-style. In between introducing performers like Britney Spears, Jay-Z, Staind and U2, says Foxx, his mission is to set the pace and "up the ante." He's also intent on getting an intro to Best New Artist nominee Alicia Keys, though he notes that Best Female Artist contender Missy Elliott is "sure looking fine. You know that song One-Minute Man? I'll be her Two-Minute Man." Sounds like the spontaneous combustion part won't be a problem...
...often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens was, the "?tis" and the "Pittsburgh" - in this honey of an intro, written by Houseman for "The Count of Monte Cristo...
...shills. "Generally, you'll see those reviews come in response to a negative review," he says. "A day later you'll see a review that can't allow itself to be negative in any way possible. There's a fakeness to it. I've printed a couple with the intro 'And this is what the studio wants you to think...
...Douglas Wendell Henderson, from Baltimore, brought a soothing hipster air to his shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...
...After a freshman seminar that he calls “an intro to everything cool in the visual world,” he was hooked...