Word: singer
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...generation in the way that Sinatra is, but he can't resist making a silly joke out of the whole process. As the beginning of his concert proved, Costello does not need the usual rock and roll trickery to be effective. He comes across most powerfully as a serious singer-songwriter with an arresting voice and a seemingly bottomless well of creative ideas. As his fans, we should demand that our voice come without all the Vegas bullshit...
...David Singer, professor of political science atthe University of Michigan, has written to me andother colleagues that Huntington "should not be amember of the NAS, even if it is Class V," on thegrounds "that he has neither the knowledge nor theinterest necessary to conduct [scientificresearch]," that he has an "ideological outlooksufficiently parochial to question hisidentification with the world-wide scientificcommunity," and that Huntington lacks competencein "matters epistemological." As Singer suggests,one can leave aside the claim made by Putnam inhis PS article, that Huntington is"avowedly patriotic." The quality of scientificdoings does not depend on their being "patriotic" buton...
Elvis and the Beatles passed him by, and so did hard rock, soft rock, punk, heavy metal and all their noisy alloys. That makes Michael Feinstein, 30, either the oldest young singer of the '80s or the youngest old singer. Or perhaps both. What does he like? Just sit back and listen to the first number on his enchanting album, Live at the Algonquin (Parnassus Records): "Wanna sing a show tune,/ Good old Broadway show tune,/ Nothing that has no tune,/ Something that has heart./ Something you can hum, or can strum by the hour...
...hear those old show tunes too. In the past year, since he opened at Manhattan's venerable Algonquin Hotel, he has become the brightest, newest star on the high-class cabaret circuit. He made a cameo appearance in February on NBC's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles -- as a nightclub singer of the '40s -- and he has performed at the White House; the current tenant is a fan. "Hey, Nancy," Ronald Reagan said when he first heard Feinstein at a Palm Springs party, "you've got to hear this...
...Steve Singer, spokesman for the Kennedy School, refused to comment on the Administration's offer to Thornburgh...