Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these stories feel a little slight for inclusion in a $20 book. But you'll read these stories at least twice, since you'll want to recite them to anyone who'll listen. The slightly obsessive narrators of these stories make them particularly suited to out-loud readings (most of them were probably created for National Public Radio). Sedaris has a masterful ear for popular culture talk--arm-chair psychology, tabloid gossip, etc. He is particularly sensitive to that time-frame known in contemporary chit-chat as "right now"--as in "I'm really interested in underwater birthing right...
...move the music in a new direction." Austin and Angie Hart hit it off as a writing team and now compose most of Frente!'s music. Hart believes that supermasculine high-volume rock has become boring. "We want to create songs that are as strong as something a loud rock band would do," she says, "but played quietly...
Charlie wins, splits the money with Yvonne and has to endure the wrath of his loud-mouthed, rambunctious and greedy wife, Muriel, played by Rosie Perez...
...Blues. At 15 years of age, and the first artist to be signed to the House of Blues label, this boy and his band bring in the country element to Blues. With supreme guitar picking (a turquoise electrical one, no less), he whined and whimpered and returned to the loud heaviness of metal and would then continue into a more mellow sound. His repertoire was wide and varied. While well on the way to becoming a stalwart of the Blues scene, his future looks golden...
...well. The peppy, 43-year-old entrepreneur and gym teacher was a disaster as a child growing up in New Jersey. "I did very poorly in school," she recalls. Her teachers and parents were constantly on her case for rowdy behavior. "They just felt I was being bad -- too loud, too physical, too everything." A rebellious tomboy with few friends, she saw a psychologist at age 10, "but nobody came up with a diagnosis." As a teenager she began prescribing her own medication: marijuana, Valium and, later, cocaine...