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...assistant private secretary on duty, Edward Young, pointed out the Queen's professional skill: at just the right moment she turned to give the cameras a perfect backdrop of happy, flag-waving children. The emotional pitch was not quite the hormonal exchange of former U.S. President Bill Clinton working a rope line, but in her subdued way the Queen is a rock star whose charisma is curiously magnified because she seems to have no desire for the fame she cannot escape. As her limousine crawled away (she deadpanned to the chauffeur who tested it at the factory that its most...
...hierarchical," says Elisabeth Hunka, the human resources chief, who arrived at the palace from the clothing industry - "red carpets, long corridors. But there are a lot of highly able people here and a lot of humor, and it creates a buzz. It's a surprisingly democratic organization, because people pitch in. And the Queen sets a very good example. She's very hardworking and never seen to have airs and graces...
...early years, though, sales led to artistic stagnation. The first disc-and-a-half of the chronologically-ordered “One Love” rarely deviates from its heavy 1-3 beat emphasis, its plodding quarter-note basslines, or its clumsily-executed, often out-of-pitch multi-part backing vocals. It’s 90 consecutive minutes of primordial ska, and it’s tiresome. This isn’t for lack of talent. Marley’s tenor is both rich and youthfully light, perhaps more passionate and expressive than on his later work...
...called the addition of the bubble “huge,” saying that the 100-yard winter fieldhouse will not only help his team—which has in the past practiced in the cramped confines of Palmer Dixon or Lavietes—but also his recruiting pitch. “We’ve got a kid from Florida, two kids from the West Coast, and a kid from Arizona coming in next year,” Walsh says, “and it’s so nice to tell those guys, you know, this...
Lynch names “drone” as a genre that is presented on NCP—the music “is just a drone for a half-hour to an hour,” he explains. The pitch is, for the most part, unchangeable...