Word: tenoritis
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...musical to hear good music that will soon be familiar to the rest of the world, what do you go for? Good old familiar music. Hence Jersey Boys, which recounts the career of the '60s vocal quartet the Four Seasons and their tenor-falsetto lead singer Frankie Valli...
...Start with The Voice. The Four Seasons' sound begins with Valli, who functioned as both the lead tenor and the falsetto backup singer; he told the story and provided the color. What astonished immediately and lastingly was the power of his glass-shattering, dog-dementing falsetto (often multiplied on record by having him dupe his solos on a second track). First time around, hearing "Sherry," listeners may have thought it was a gag. Sometimes he used it for fun, in high-pitched baby talk, as George Rock's comic falsetto had for the vocal in Spike Jones' 1947 novelty...
...hours-long speech of Castro-style invective against the United States and George W. Bush. Fidel Castro may not have been invited to the summit, but protestors carried his image on banners all over the place. All of this was a far cry from the inchoate Vegan-anarchist tenor of the anti-globalization demonstrations that have accompanied most gatherings of the captains of the world economy over the past few years. It felt more hard core, like the old-style Left...
...Arizona and Ohio as a graduate student in 1988. Gates plucked him from Ohio’s ranks in 2003. Mugane is now a Senior Preceptor in the department, and the Director of the African Language Program. He is an embodiment of the department’s new tenor...
...proverbial H-Bomb? Think about the ethical dilemma of dropping the actual H-bomb. The only exception would be if you dropped the bomb on Gomorrah. Or Baghdad. I’ll leave the comparable horror of nuclear disaster up to your imagination. From the single-tear no-friends tenor of your note, I bet you read sci-fi. You probably have braces too. Anyway, if you’re going to complain, write to Stephen Fee. Yours, The FM Ethicist