Word: patters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some of what goes on in New York is just patter. Were any of these guys just amazed that you said yes to their advances...
...Alicia Keys/Stevie Wonder Impromptu Performance After some truly awful patter-"It?s the biggest night of the world!" Stevie announced-Wonder and fellow presenter Alicia Keys settled down and delivered a terrific improvised a cappela performance of Higher Ground dedicated to Coretta Scott King...
...right, occasionally, to revisit currently disused genres. There can sometimes be something comforting in the old stylizations. But to make something like Firewall good, you have to make it at least a little bit new--or add more than an unending patter of rain and techno-talk...
Fortunately, such moments are rare lulls in the madcap momentum of the piece. The songs—including the obligatory Gilbert and Sullivan patter song, which is delivered flawlessly—are generally upbeat and full of wordplay that is more memorable than the tunes...
...paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird sitting on its nest in the loft. At length the patter of rain heralds spring, and soon children's shouts and the clump of feet on the back stairs start another season. At the same time a secondary theme blossoms. Not only does the house return to life, but also a new cycle of nature begins. Again, the sounds tell...