Word: singeing
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...When God is in the Lyrics All the little girl wanted to do was sing "Awesome God" at an after-school talent show. Instead she became the focus of a federal lawsuit - with a strange coalition of legal backers
...have social anxiety. How does that work when you sing in front of crowds every night? I spend most of my day holed up in my hotel room, in silence, boring myself to death. Everybody else [on the tour] comes back, and they've got bags of s___ that they've bought, and they've gone to museums. I haven't gone out, and I feel like such a dud. But I really have to starve myself of people. I have to get myself into a calm trance and then I'm just--pow!--out the door and happy...
...DOES IS ACCENTS Being able to do accents, Streep maintains, is like being able to sing. You can do it or you can't. Still, not everybody who can do accents can do everything else she can. Brave is the person who tries to analyze what makes Streep's performances so remarkable. But Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and is translating Mother Courage, gives it a whirl. "She does that weird thing that really great actors can do that really good actors can't. It's the ability to do two, three or four things at once...
...meeting the parents to soft crying at a funeral, movies and television have carefully prepared us for how to act in any given situation; there are no more authentic, naked, and unprepared experiences. Instead, we go through the motions we’ve seen before. As The Postal Service sing, “I kissed you in [the] style [of] Clark Gable”—every guy learned to kiss by watching movie kisses, so every kiss is an imitation.The media can’t take away the pain of a funeral or the thrill of a kiss...
...arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some of the eye-opening footage was used by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Gittoes' f?ted film has found a home on America's VH1 cable channel as well as at Melbourne's Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, where Soundtrack...