Word: singer
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Another example of Carnesale's attempt to consolidate is appointing junior faculty to new posts created by consolidation, according to Kennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer. This will enable more faculty members to be more active in the Kennedy School community, he says...
...Jerry Brown is an outsider, I'm a rap singer," says Frank. "He's a career politician who thought it was good idea to look like an outsider...
Anyway, it stinks of calculation. The film -- about a Reno singer (Whoopi Goldberg) finding refuge from her gangster lover (Harvey Keitel) in a dilapidated convent run by staid Maggie Smith -- allows no room for irony, vagrant inspiration or air. There's something piquant about the look of Whoopi in a wimple, but the star must soar or sink with the vehicle, and this one is a bathysphere. Despite a nice turn by Kathy Najimy as a criminally chirpy nun and some inventive charts by ace arranger Marc Shaiman, Sister Act has corporate fingerprints smudging its smiling face...
...unexpected matches and offbeat finds. Marion Harris, a now forgotten star, strikes a provocative balance of plaintive charm and rhythmic sophistication in a 1930 recording of You Do Something to Me. For Miss Otis Regrets, Ethel Waters' well-known version is bypassed in favor of one by blues singer Alberta Hunter because, as album editor Dwight Blocker Bowers notes, she gives this uniquely bitter nonsense song "Porter's sassy spirit." So does this whole definitive...
Great idea, middling execution. The group is composed entirely of aspiring artistes: a writer, a rap singer, a dancer, a model and so forth (not a 9-to-5 drudge in the house). The half-hour episodes are assembled with quick-cutting flash by producers Mary Ellis Bunim and Jon Murray. Few scenes last longer than a minute, the sound track vibrates with rock music, and the camera is always moving or tilted rakishly. MTV has apparently outlawed the 90 degrees angle...