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...doubt, be relieved that the fate of the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington owes his organization will no longer be captive to the whims of Senator Jesse Helms, who has in the past made agreements dependent on such rather strange conditions as a guarantee that the U.N. would refrain from taking control...
...Jobim song Waters of March, which she sang in her own translation from the Portuguese (one of her five or six languages). Her version, so intimate with the song's poetry that it even became a hit in Jobim's Brazil, contains at the core of its large-hearted refrain a line that reads, "It's the promise of spring, it's the end of despair, it's the joy in your heart." How I wish she had been singing it last weekend...
...Cheung could qualify as a monument to pop longevity if he was not still in his glistening prime?and if he was not still so damned gorgeous. Any visitor to Hong Kong who mentions his name to a local will hear the same refrain: "Guess how old he is" (as if he kept a rotting portrait of himself in the attic). Cheung is 44, and if he has changed at all during his half-life in the public eye, it is to become more wily in the lavishing and husbanding of his allure. He simultaneously seduces and withdraws, flirts...
...tracks on Distorted Lullabies, a falsetto that can turn unexpectedly into a controlled but chilling scream. A great example of this comes in the album’s second song, “Drowning,” which has a lively beat and an almost too-catchy refrain, punctuated by Gnecco’s distinct howling. The introduction of “Sometimes” sounds exactly like a song from the movie Romeo and Juliet, and is a slightly more mellow and melodic song than many of the others on the album—that is, until Gnecco starts...
...tracks on Distorted Lullabies, a falsetto that can turn unexpectedly into a controlled but chilling scream. A great example of this comes in the album’s second song, “Drowning,” which has a lively beat and an almost too-catchy refrain, punctuated by Gnecco’s distinct howling. The introduction of “Sometimes” sounds exactly like a song from the movie Romeo and Juliet, and is a slightly more mellow and melodic song than many of the others on the album—that is, until Gnecco starts...