Word: singe
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...surfing on upraised hands. He climbed the scaffolds around a stage, dangling from dangerous heights. He stood still in front of a microphone, folded into himself, tearing emotions out of himself as he sang. "I'm kind of a cynic about these guys who cross their arms when they sing," Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says of the first time he heard Vedder sing in a Seattle club. "But there were songs that Eddie sang that sent shivers up my spine." Pearl Jam cemented its reputation as a heavyweight contender in August at the MTV Music Video Awards, where the band...
...else--to sing, maybe?--well, I would take the time to learn how. I have plenty of time before me.'' For ballet audiences too, there is plenty of time to watch these splendid creatures develop...
...Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing music; it was Benny who broke the color line in music by integrating his band with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson (''I'm selling music, not prejudice,'' he said); it was Benny who brought jazz to Carnegie Hall, confirming...
...rather unlikely combination of her three favorite stars: Noel Coward, Leslie Howard, and George Raft. Unfortunately, Louis was somewhat less sophisticated than Lena's idols. He had, for example, old- fashioned ideas about wifely duties. He believed in perfectly ironed shirts, piping hot biscuits, and demon needlework. Lena . . . could sing, dance, and make intelligent conversation, but she could barely boil...
Then in 1974, with the coup, it was all but silenced. Some artists, like Ahmed and Astatqé found work abroad, others like Alèmayèhu Eshèté and Tilahun Gesesse were made to sing with military bands who were by now back in uniform and playing state-approved music. "Imagine you are a teenager," says Falceto. "This is your time of night for cruising or to visit a club, to dance, to drink, to meet, but suddenly you can't because there's a curfew and it lasts for 18 years. This means that nobody...