Word: ma
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...fried beer-battered shrimp, the succulent fish swam on top of a vaguely tangy mustard sauce. The plate was livened by spicy sauteed collard greens--or perhaps it was the more raffine kale--and mashed potatoes. The overstuffed pork chop was way too sophisticated to hearken back to grand-ma's recipe. It came stuffed with apple and andouille sausage which cohered around moistened breadcrumbs. Black plum ketchup provided a foil for the smoky, spicy meat. The same potato and collard/kale accompaniments leant themselves more favorably to the pork chop than to the tuna. Both entrees, though hearty and rich...
...became an upstanding member of the congregation, delighting many of the adults with his choirboy gentility. "Yes, sir" was the way he addressed the men, and he was wont to say "Ma'am" when he held out a chair for a lady. He'd been raised right, most folks thought. Only two weeks ago, says Perry, Mitchell Johnson joined up with another youth group to sing and minister at a nursing home...
WASHINGTON: Bad news for the White House: Ken Starr thinks he's Joe Friday. "I've always been a big believer in that show... that Jack Webb was in, 'Just the facts ma'am,'" Starr said Thursday. He was happy to use the recent Paula furor to burrow deeper into the role he relishes: That of the tenacious policeman on the trail...
TIME magazine's cover story on Ellen DeGeneres' coming out, TV's "Entertainment Tonight," singer k.d. lang and the film "Ma Vie en Rose" were among the winners Monday when media image group the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation presented its annual awards. At the first in a series of galas that will take place in Washington and Los Angeles, GLAAD honored pop star lang with a special achievement award. "It's really taken me about six years to process everything that's gone on," lang said of the time since she came out. "All I can tell...
Just what effect, if any, did the filming of Inspired by Bach have on Ma's interpretations? You'd have to ask him. But anyone who watches Falling Down Stairs, the film on the C-major suite, can see how enthusiastically the cellist responds to Morris' fanciful choreography and hear how some of that unfeigned delight has made its way into Ma's rhythmically light-footed performance. Whether on CD or videocassette, it is the best of all possible introductions to Yo-Yo Ma's newly revised version of the Gospel According to Johann Sebastian Bach...