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...management firm at the time, 19 Entertainment. (19, the company owned by show creator Simon Fuller, has the right to sign any Idol contestant; another contractual obligation. It had no comment on this or any Clarkson-related matter.) "To be totally honest," says Clarkson in her gentle twang, "the problem was I wanted to write a lot of my own songs on Breakaway. Nobody else wanted me to. So there was a big ol' fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Independent | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...anything. Congress hadn't signed off. "When I first arrived in Washington," says Bono, "I asked, Who's Elvis here? Who do I have to speak to to change the world? Then I find out that even though the President says yes and even though he speaks with a twang, he's not Elvis. Congress is Elvis in America. No, Congress is Colonel Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constant Charmer | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...predecessors (from mathy Shellac flourishes to Tortoise ambience), “Pulling My Face In And Out of Distortion, I Blink Too Much” lets the credits roll on “Beautiful Seizure” in a fittingly demented sing-song fashion. Guitars roll downstream with a twang of finality, as trumpets sound the band’s exit with gusto...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beautiful Seizure | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...what Republicans delicately called an "environmental problem" for Kilgore. One Republican strategist said the "headwinds" of Bush's problems, including chaos in Iraq and the indictment of a close aide, were compounded by "flank winds" of tawdry headlines about Republicans in Congress. Kilgore, with his light schedule and mountain twang, was friendly and earnest, but short on what consultants call "candidate skills." A column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday said his voice sounded "like Gomer Pyle on helium." The Associated Press called the race for Kaine at 9:06 p.m. ET, just two hours after the polls closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Dems Won Virginia | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

Jerry Kilgore, a Republican candidate for Governor whose mountain twang kept him out of his own ads for much of the campaign, was looking starched and chipper Sunday as he shook hands outside the Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Virginia Worries the GOP | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

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