Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women are always an endangered species. From Elvis to Eddie Vedder, modern pop has been a guy's game; the primal image is of a man and his guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. And the women? They can scream in the audience or maybe sing backup. In childhood girls are no more encouraged to pick up a Les Paul Black Beauty than pilot an F-16. They are expected to play only one instrument: the voice...
...year effort to include more blacks, Latinos and Native Americans among the system's some 160,000 students. The meeting was interrupted by a bomb threat, punctuated by protests from radical feminists and brought to a halt when the Rev. Jesse Jackson linked arms with other protesters to sing We Shall Overcome. At that point, the regents fled to a separate meeting room...
...polite, but SINEAD O'CONNOR managed it last week -- albeit only momentarily -- when she abruptly pulled out of the Lollapalooza tour. The Irish singer announced her withdrawal in a letter to tour organizer Perry Farrell and another to the press, saying she was pregnant, and "it's hard to sing when you want to throw up all the time." O'Connor, who had been a tour favorite, also slammed reports that she was booed off the stage on a previous visit to the U.S. Meanwhile, Love, who's also on the Lollapalooza tour, roared back. Having already insulted fans...
...performers who are creating the most erotically cathartic music are the male vocal group Jodeci, whose new CD is called The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks me, 'Why do y'all sing about so much sex?'" says Jodeci's Dalvin...
...been forfeited. For one thing, Garcia Marquez's signature tone of sagacious melancholy is necessarily lost. For another, Bob Telson's music fails to deepen or extend the characters. In musical theater the audience longs to feel that it knows someone much better after listening to him or her sing for a couple of minutes. But Telson's priorities seem to be elsewhere...