Word: spokenness
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...arena-rock classic, Hysteria, but his commercial sound works in almost any genre. His favorite trick is to pile layers of vocal takes--sometimes several dozen--on top of one another, giving his singers a lush, smooth sound. Then Lange uses key changes, drum fills, cowbells, chants, effects and spoken interludes to keep the listener's attention. These devices make Lange's music particularly popular with radio programmers; research shows that a song with numerous pace changes and interruptions, like those on Nah!, the herky-jerky sing-along on Up!, keeps listeners from turning the dial. "Lyrics," says Elliot...
...their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village of Harome, Yorkshire, runs one of the few pubs to have won a coveted Michelin star. Yet his menus are as blunt as the plain-spoken Yorkshireman himself. He serves dishes such as braised oxtail with horseradish sauce and "no pools of this and no puddles of that," Pern says. "Nine out of 10 times fancy descriptions are just trying to cover up ordinary food." The only thing ordinary about Pern's pub is the language...
...administration has recently shown an increased openness to student opinion—now it is our turn to step up. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby have spoken with the council about a range of student issues—from SpringFest to the Core curriculum—showing both that they are open to our opinion and that they see the council as the purveyor of it. But the council has been hampered in representing us because the administration has been bombarded by student opinion from all sides. We are much easier...
Adel al-Jubeir struck a slight, plaintive figure as he stood before a crowded Washington press conference this week to plead for understanding. "We believe that our country has been unfairly maligned," the balding, soft-spoken man told the assembled reporters. "We believe that we have been subjected to criticism that we do not deserve." For his role serving as chief spin-doctor for the Saudi government at a time when it's fighting a PR battle to convince America of its bona fides as an anti-terror ally amid a relentless torrent of skepticism, Adel al-Jubeir...
...problem is less at a government-to-government level than in the sphere of public opinion. Although they'd like the Saudis to do more to clamp down on funds reaching al-Qaeda, the Bush Administration has spoken positively of Saudi cooperation against bin Laden's network in the wake of 9/11. The Administration knows well that the Saudi rulers are among bin Laden's most loathed enemies, and overthrowing them is a key objective of his global jihad. The Administration is also aware that a majority of Saudis are considerably more hostile to the United States than are their...