Word: soundly
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This performance differed from her 1984 Mister Heartbreak tour in that Anderson had musical support from only a single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...
...classification meant that it clearly was. Pressed, he finally conceded, "If I had heard the alarms that have been expressed in this room this week before the flight, I certainly would have been concerned. Yes sir." Nonetheless he insisted later at a press conference, "I think it was a sound decision to launch...
...staying in was very close to the army camp. (My brother) Peping said, "The sooner you can get out of this house, the better." They asked me, "Where do you think you should stay?" I said at the Carmelite monastery. I got to the monastery, which was like The Sound of Music, and these nuns welcomed me. They said, "Cory, you will be very safe here, because they will have to kill all of us before they do anything to you." I slept very well, considering that they had no mattress...
...instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop it. But at the insistence of Reagan loyalists on the commission, the language was "dulled up" to sound more like a typical presidential commission's findings. Meanwhile, Reagan's speechwriters pre-emptively embraced the commission's findings with some hedged language. "Wherever the commission's recommendations point the way to greater executive effectiveness, I will implement them," Reagan stated, "even if they run counter to the will...
...also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding in the T-Birds' music: Zydeco, blues and rock, Keith Richards and Bob Wills. But the sound they tap out of all this is righteous and roughhouse, good enough to get even the bouncers dancing...