Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Prine sounded much more natural on his own than when trying to blend his nasal, gruff voice with Timmins' quiet, smooth one. In his opening set, Prince's country style and simple, honest lyrics won the audience's tremendous enthusiasm. His "It's a Big Ol' Goofy World," which rambled with a ridiculous quality reminiscent of Bob Dylan, even provoked whoops and hollers of delight...
...unashamed overacting of its cast save The Visit from being monotonous. From the flat-footed scenes where drably dressed women and shirtless men dance without grace (but with much abandon) to the nasal singing of the town choir, the paucity of the acting will enchant...
Leno cites all kinds of comedic models -- Alan King, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor -- but his mentor in the pursuit of popularity was not a comedian but a President. "L.B.J. claimed that every handshake was worth 250 votes," Leno says, in his familiar high-pitched, nasal voice, "because each person then goes and tells someone else you're a good guy and then they go and tell more people...
...calico dresses, a throng of two-stepping dancers is raising a fine cloud of dust under moss-bearded branches. On the stage, silhouetted against a red sunset, Johnny Sonnier's Cajun Heritage lays down a pulsating chank-chank rhythm punctuated by accordion counterpoints, soaring fiddles and a piercing nasal vocal: "Jolie fille, jolie fille...
...rest of the cast is practically seamless. Particularly shining contributions come from Joe Hill, as Charles Errol, a conniving, racist cousin; and Amanda Frye, as a zealous church soloist. The only low point in this area is another church soloist. Beth Salm's, flat and slightly nasal voice...