Word: singer
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...setting created by the songs of Mary Chapin Carpenter is more haunting than your typical country-singer territory. Yet that's her landscape, and Carpenter looks fetching in it. Three years running, she has won a Grammy for wrapping her dusky alto around, respectively, Down at the Twist and Shout, I Feel Lucky and Passionate Kisses. She could easily make it four with her current single, the slow-rockin', Bonnie Raitt-ish Shut Up and Kiss Me, in which a take-charge woman whispers those five magic words to a too-well- behaved beau...
...Veruca Salt isn't one of them. On the group's debut CD, American Thighs, singer-guitarist Nina Gordon, singer-guitarist Louise Post, bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro make music that is both disturbingly dysfunctional and thoroughly enjoyable. The band's lyrics are downbeat, fuzzy and weird while the tunes are upbeat and full of melodic guitar bravado. On the energetic Celebrate You, Post sings, "And in the dream/ You held a gun/ You killed off all who hurt you," accompanied by bright, jangling guitars. On All Hail Me, when Post cries, "I killed your baby...
...been talking about it for a number of months and dates have been scheduled and postponed," Singer said yesterday...
...Kennedy School has "a very wide net" in choosing its speakers, Singer said. "[She is] very visible and very active in trying to involve Hollywood in campaigns and public police...
Streisand, often referred to as star FOB (Friend of Bill), has been criticized for her work during the Clinton campaign. IOP members hope she would address this criticism in her speech, Singer said...