Word: twang
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...always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang,” telling me that I sound just like the people on MTV. Wouldn’t it be appropriate, then, for me to be in a relationship that involved the meeting and sometimes the conflict of two cultures...
...first piece, “She’s No Lady,” a classic country description of the problems and pleasures of married life, is playful and almost sultry; the more exaggerated movements of the dancers fit the twang and whine of the music. The second piece, “She’s Hot to Go,” is a solo by Ray W. Keller ’08. His performance epitomizes the word “exuberant” in a particularly well choreographed piece...
...beautiful, I’ve decided, is the essence of why Dylan lovers love Dylan and have stuck with him through his many, many idiosyncrasies and disappointing choices. He’s defiantly himself, and never panders to expectations. When we hear perfect songs coming from his nasal twang, we think that we too can make something beautiful. Bob Dylan does whatever he wants, and he still manages to hold fast to the hearts of fans like us, so much that we spend 25 bucks to see what may well be a mediocre performance—even those...
...mood: rembetika. A mix of Western and Eastern influences, rembetika first emerged from the bars and cafés of 1920s Piraeus, Athens' ancient port and onetime home to refugees from Turkey and other parts of Asia Minor. The style - with its gravel-voiced singers and the metallic twang of the bouzouki, a kind of Greek lute - became the sound of the urban underclass, with sharp, poignant lyrics about prison life, drugs and, during the military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, politics. Fans show their appreciation by throwing flowers, usually gardenias. Bring a bunch to Taximi, on 29 Isavron...
...reason, and it will be difficult for Kerry to battle a gut feeling most Americans have about the president, whom many voters continue to deem decisive and trustworthy. But Bush’s excellent campaign staff—including spin maestro Karl Rove and the likable Texas twang of Karen Hughes—is another big Bush asset. The president’s own Texas-tinted brain trust has already demonstrated its willingness to exploit the tragedy of September 11, 2001 in the campaign’s first round of ads, which prominently feature footage of the World Trade Center?...