Word: quavers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley; Victor). A new singer with a new twist: a double voice that alternates between a high, unpleasant quaver, reminiscent of Johnnie Ray at his fiercest, and a rich basso that might be smooth if it were not for its spasmodic delivery. Heartbreak Hotel, yelps the high voice, is where he's going to get away from it all. Answers the basso: he'll be sorry...
...March, is miles ahead of its competitors both in audience popularity and in the vital area of "human interest." Currently, the show is starring Mabel Morris, an aged (she admits to 75), sassy Dickensian expert who has intelligence, impressive knowledge of her special field, and a fetching voice quaver not unlike that of Ed Wynn. Newspaper reporters last week helped along the show's publicity by revealing that Mabel is on relief in Manhattan and that some $6,000 of her winnings will have to go toward clearing up her indebtedness to the city...
...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...
...seem the type to ask people to do what they wished-only what she wished. Where Dorothy shimmered in white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl lost in the wicked world...
...Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering old Edouard Herriot summarized for the fearful. "I refuse to accord [the Germans] either my sympathy or friendship," Herriot complained in his best emotional quaver. "The U.S. de serves that we make sacrifices for it. But France cannot sacrifice her conscience...