Word: lilt
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...minute she is tender, singing with a lilt as soft and sweet as cotton candy. The next she drives her points home by rapping tart, in-your-face rhymes as pungent as picante salsa. Afro-British singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry, 27, exhibited this sweet yet fiery (and fervently feminist) demeanor on her memorable 1989 debut album, Raw Like Sushi. The alluring dichotomy continues on her sensational new release, Homebrew. Call it the essence of being Neneh...
...Webber. But there is also something very wrong. Not one recent main-stem show has been set in today's America or taken inspiration from the best of today's pop music. Broadway is now the museum of the American musical. Guys and Dolls, for all its snazz and lilt, is a faithful revival of Loesser's 1950 hit. Crazy for You is a jolly update of Gershwin's 1930 Girl Crazy. Jelly's Last Jam is a spiked showcase for the rags and blues of Jelly Roll Morton, who flourished in Gershwin's day. Tourists go to these...
...friend of mine, a speechwriter for Sen. Tom Harkin, asked my advice on writing a speech for the West Virginia AFL-CIO. I suggested that he discuss the history of the labor movement in West Virginia, including the famous, bloody massacre at Paint Creek. Because of my faint Appalachian lilt, my friend understood it as "Pink Creek." Only a last-minute phone call saved the senator from certain humiliation...
...then there's the sprightly Gloria Estefan, 32, who boogies with a Latin lilt and a dash of salsa, temporarily out of commission with a bad back after a nasty bus crash. (She's on the mend at home in Miami, thanks, doing fine and due back on stage in three to six months.) "I don't feel Cuban or American," the Cuban-born singer reflected before her accident. "I guess I feel Latin Miami." That neatly encapsulates the music she makes too: sunny, open...
...first two pro seasons. But when coach Marty Schottenheimer decided to emphasize the Chiefs' ground offense this year, Okoye found his groove. The formula is simple: they give him the ball, he runs with it. "I have to work harder than anyone else," says Okoye in his Nigerian lilt, "because everybody knows more about football than me and I have to catch up." Marvels Schottenheimer: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone with the combination of power and speed of Christian...