Word: soaring
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...made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip Moman classic unfolds, O'Connor's fidelity to each note becomes a form of quiet desperation. Like her old buddy Frank Sinatra, she makes songs great without appearing to try. The second disc...
...GUERRA. Fusing pop, trip-hop and a variety of Latin American styles, Mexican singer-songwriter Ely Guerra forges her own eclectic, mature sound, topped by velvety vocals in Spanish which soar, smolder and seduce. Her Mexican record label, who didn’t know what to make of her, shelved the songstress before demand for her addictive and understated brand of pop led her to EMI. Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m. $15. 18+. Downstairs, The Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave. (MRH & HLN) WINTERBOY. Oddbeat singer/songwriter/guitarist Alan Winters has a zest for experimentation. He’s tried his hand...
...active fraud investigation hasn't kept buyers from snapping up millions of shares of embattled HealthSouth. In Chicago an investment club took a flyer on bankrupt UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, believing that the stock was set to soar. More than 57 million shares of bankrupt WorldCom were traded last Thursday on news that WorldCom had reached a revised settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will give some shareholders stock in the new company when it comes out of bankruptcy. True, but this applies only to people who owned WorldCom before June 25, 2002. When WorldCom...
...Marvel Comics hero, a special gift is also a curse. He didn't ask for the ability to soar, to have his senses tuned to an impossible acuity, to be a hulk or a vampire; it just came over him, like the surge of puberty. His gift isolates him from society, bruises and confuses him. And since he is not always in control of his power, it becomes an addiction in need of medication. If only there were a therapy group for his kind--a Superheroes Anonymous...
...places that visitors are bused in to admire? Northwest Yunnan, which has made its first forays into ecotourism, is a perfect place to find out. Through it run branches of four of Asia's major rivers?the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Salween and the Irrawaddy. Between their banks soar some of the fastest-growing mountain ranges on earth, which in turn harbor the world's most biologically diverse temperate forests. Since 1998, when a large-scale ban on commercial logging axed 80% of Yunnan's income, its local governments have latched onto tourism as their salvation. But China's standard...