Word: quavering
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...tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone" and the octave drop on that lusty "mm-mm" before the third verse. On one of the 1956 TV shows, he proudly called "Don't Be Cruel" "my biggest record," adding "'Course they're all the same size...
...Gaines kind of way, Carey's record label paid her $28 million not to record with it again. This is pretty humiliating stuff, and Charmbracelet is not above begging for sympathy. Carey opens with Through the Rain, a somber ballad that reduces her formidable voice to a tentative little quaver. "I can make it through the rain, I can stand up once again," she sings. Never mind that Barry Manilow used these approximate lyrics in 1980's I Made It Through the Rain; Carey herself turned in almost the exact same vocal performance on 1993's Hero...
...artist's voice] could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama...
...Sinatra was to popular music, so John Gielgud was to theater: The Voice. It could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...
...oddly, the sloppy, scary pennant series with the Indians explains how the Yankees were able to do what they did all this remarkable year. John Sterling, the radio announcer, said it in his curious quaver 114 times: "The-uh-uh-uh Yankees win!" They have demonstrated that winning in baseball sometimes consists of perfect games and of grand-slam home runs, but more often of base stealing, of advancing runners in hit-and-run situations, of fouling off ball after ball until the pitcher gets careless, of studying the field like a botanist on every play, of watching and anticipating...