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Whitney Houston didn't want to sing on the sound track of Waiting to Exhale. But that was before singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds got to her. The way Houston recalls it, Edmonds told her, "I just want you to hear this one song. If you like it, you'll do it." It turned out he hadn't written any lyrics; all he had was a melody. "He started laughing," says Houston. And then he started playing the song on the piano. Houston joined in, improvising: "Count on me through thick and thin/ A friendship that will never...
...components contributing to this rape culture are present from childhood. Whether it is the physical violence we may witness in our homes, see on television, sing along to in our popular rock and rap songs, the message is clear--violence as a form of communication is natural, praise-worthy and masculine. Throughout our adolescence and notably in our schools, the voices of women are silenced, and men are taught that they are entitled to power and the validation of their opinions. But the perpetrators are not men. Rather, the responsible party is the system to which both women...
...Leno called the vice presidential debate "must sleep tv," and ABC complained it was a C-SPAN sing-along. A majority of the public say "dull" when pollsters ask them to describe the campaign. By the time of the presidential town-hall meeting, it looked as if Game Six of the pennant race would draw more viewers; midway through, Life Among the Manatees on Nova had more...
...Odyssey starts out speedily: "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns/ driven time and again off course, once he had plundered/ the hallowed halls of Troy." That man, of course, is Odysseus, the epic hero of all that is to follow, and in calling him "the man of twists and turns" Fagles signals his commitment to economical, concrete descriptions. Fitzgerald's translation introduces Odysseus as "that man skilled in all ways of contending." Some readers may prefer Fitzgerald's rendering, of course, but the contrast shows clearly the straightforward method Fagles pursues...
...evening had a communal ending as the crowd and panelists joined to sing Amazing Grace and students congregated on the stage to continue conversations with the authors...