Word: singer
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Talking to Animals, an independent Boston rock band, excites and engages its audience by blending powerful rock 'n' roll guitar and drums with the distinctive voice of singer Juliana Nash. Their sound--which defies classification--resembles a mix of Natalie Merchant's 10,000 Maniacs and Scotland's distorted but melodic Teenage Fanclub...
...with Talking to Animals after their Middle East Cafe performance. Since we couldn't hear each other over the din of the noisy smoke-filled room, Juliana, the lead singer, suggested we sit outside. With sirens blaring and cars rushing by, Juliana and Greg, later joined by Jay and Thomas, talked comfortably about themselves and their music...
Born in Boston in 1905, Jones attended the Boston High School of Practical Arts and later received a scholarship to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She credits Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, whose work she discovered at the MFA, as being two of her major influences...
...Clinton has shown, it can be a means of pulling the country together. Ronald Reagan and Lee Atwater taught Bush the politics of division, wedge issues and smear. But when times are tough, the nation will coalesce only around a message of promise. Clinton rejected the hatred of rap singer Sister Souljah but stands poised to garner a larger percentage of Black voters than even Mondale. He rejected the redistributionalism of the left but has drawn some of its most prominent intellectuals to his ranks. His rhetoric, at base, inspires inclusion...
...largely symbolic moves in June further helped Clinton reappear on TV in a favorable light. Addressing a meeting of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, Clinton denounced "racist" remarks by rap singer Sister Souljah, who had been on a panel the day before (the remarks, which appeared to advocate killing whites, had actually been made in an interview somewhat earlier). Jackson, who had not been informed of what Clinton intended to say, was furious; he decried it as a "Machiavellian" move intended to appeal to conservative whites. The strategic appraisal, though not the overheated rhetoric, was sound. Clinton was in fact...