Word: righteously
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Lucinda Williams is a righteous singer. The sound of her voice is so overwhelming and so moving that she could sing the phone book and probably give it meaning. But she comes up with extraordinary words for that voice to sing--deceptively simple words like back steps or hairdo. How do you use the word hairdo in a song and make it so poignant that it almost breaks your heart...
...didn?t call the police, although in retrospect I wish I had. That spectacular imbecile may have gone on to kill or maim - and while I am not sure the North Carolina highway patrol would have been particularly sympathetic to my self-righteous outrage, I like to think a carefully-considered complaint might have made a difference...
...always erring (if this can be called an error) on the positive side. Bing may not be a true jazz singer, but Giddins makes a jazz symphony of his early life and career. "A Pocketful of Dreams" is an inspired improv on the familiar materials of that life; a righteous riff, with footnotes. The book makes Crosby hip by association, not with Armstrong, but with Giddins...
Those of us who served in World War II were untroubled by ambiguities. We were the "good guys," our cause was righteous, and our clear but difficult task was to push back the "bad guys." I arrived in Vietnam as a correspondent 25 years later, just as the first shots were being fired?and, on and off, spent more than a decade there. I sensed from the beginning that however the embryonic conflict evolved, it would be drastically different from any in our past...
Those of us who served in World War II were untroubled by ambiguities. We were the "good guys," our cause was righteous, and our clear but difficult task was to push back the "bad guys." I arrived in Vietnam as a correspondent 25 years later, just as the first shots were being fired--and, on and off, spent more than a decade there. I sensed from the beginning that however the embryonic conflict evolved, it would be drastically different from any in our past...