Word: piquant
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...Bollywood playback queen Asha Bhosle is, quite probably, the most recorded vocal artist in history. No exact tally exists, but Bhosle estimates she has laid down more than 12,000 songs in over a dozen languages. For decades, slinky Bollywood actresses and dancers have been lip-synching to her piquant vocal lines. In recent years, Bhosle has also occasionally collaborated with Western singers, including Boy George and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and she opened a restaurant, Asha's, in Dubai in 2002. (She has said that if she didn't make it as a singer she would have been...
...members to make a combined 5 million phone calls before Election Day, asking people to vote for Democrats. Markos Moulitsas, who runs Daily Kos, is talking about building real, bricks-and-mortar gathering halls where progressives can meet and organize political activities in person. Jane Hamsher, who runs the piquant online hangout Firedoglake, and other bloggers have started the "roots project," in which they employ nonweb political tactics like writing letters to the editors of their local newspapers. "We can hammer the New York Times and the Washington Post forever," Hamsher said, but "candidates are more influenced by what...
...DIED. Bruno Kirby, 57, high-pitched, piquant actor who infused his many supporting roles-often as best friend, often to Billy Crystal-with intensity and humor over his 35-year career; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. Kirby's most notable performances included a turn as a humorless lieutenant in Good Morning, Vietnam, and, in When Harry Met Sally, as a journalist pal to Billy Crystal's Harry who marries, then eggs his comrade to follow him into domestic bliss...
...world premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for choir and orchestra in Adelaide, the audience was respectfully poised for what was expected to be a masterwork from this father of modern Australian composition. What began to issue from the stage was suitably piquant, with cello passages that seemed to weep in waterfalls of sound. Then, in the second movement, something miraculous occurred. Walking slowly from the back of the hall toward the stage came a gentle giant of a man, his 1.9-m bulk wrapped around a hollowed tree trunk into which he breathed. Sculthorpe's music at once expanded...
DIED. Bruno Kirby, 57, piquant, high-pitched actor who infused his many supporting roles--often as best friend, often to Billy Crystal--with intensity and humor over his 35-year career; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. Kirby's most notable performances included a turn as a humorless lieutenant in Good Morning, Vietnam and as a journalist pal to Crystal's Harry in When Harry Met Sally. Kirby's character marries--above, at center--then eggs on his comrade to follow him into domestic bliss...