Word: mushing
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...There is an illusion that the analytical types on the Left are mush heads, and that we wear our hearts on our sleeves. There is nothing intrinsic about the world that should make this so,” Tribe said...
...Mississippi woman known as Cassandra Wilson made a recording titled Blue Skies and set herself ahead of all other jazz singers, except for the longtime giants Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter. With a sensuality too purely adult and far too lyrical to be confused with either the mush or the vulgarity that defines too much popular singing, Wilson remakes standard songs as though none of the lessons laid down by the greats have been lost...
...perhaps there is someone in the audience--some fresh-faced first-year journalist, maybe, bright-eyed and ink-stained--who is made uncomfortable by this crushing code of inoffensiveness. Can we never print anything wild and outrageous? he asks plaintively. Must all our writing be little more than mush and dreary pabulum...
...song's telling melody) get the message across. In his never-equaled way, he drifts across the languid honky-tonk beat; almost talking at points, he never fails to surprise with a speeded-up phrase or a well-placed drawn-out note. At the same time, he never makes mush of the lyrics; one of his great assets is that the listener understands every word. Moving to the new label seems to have reinvigorated Jones, who is at his vocal peak on this and the several albums that followed over the next couple of years. He also receives just...
...strange feeling that Gwyneth Paltrow blacklisted me.) In any case, I sit in Ec 10 surrounded by fresh-faced first-years and my TF leads us through the exciting world of supply and demand. Curves, graphs, up, down, price, quantity - it all sounded like a bunch of theoretical mush, but I paid attention since God knows I didn't want to have to learn it all over again the night before the midterm...