Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between the beer going down and the macadamia nuts coming back up, emerges a voice worth listening to. Out of a mind cluttered with pop culture icons and high brow trivia--James Dean, Lucky Charms, Cezanne--come the big big modern philosophical questions, refurbished with Nelson's own pessimistic twang. "Who the fuck am I?" he asks...
...elected, will you defend Hurlbut " I asked Kris N. Thiessen '96. "DEE-fend," boomed, affecting a political in a southern twang. "Of course. But, let me add a clause to that: I will defend all of Harvard University--especially the dorms which I represent...
...effects of those nerves were on display at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert began promisingly enough, with Cliburn firmly projecting Honest Abe's noble sentiments in a Texas twang. And once he wrapped his huge hands around the thundering opening chords of the Tchaikovsky, it appeared that Cliburn really was back. The formidable technique was still there, and the distinctive ringing tone. Cliburn really is a throwback to the piano's Golden Age of blazing virtuosity and emotional extravagance. He remains one of the handful of players -- and just about the only American -- who can conjure up the world...
...mere cosmopolitanism: it is a fundamental recoloring of the very complexion of societies. Cities like Paris, or Hong Kong, have always had a soigne, international air and served as magnets for exiles and emigres, but now smaller places are multinational too. Marseilles speaks French with a distinctly North African twang. Islamic fundamentalism has one of its strongholds in Bradford, England. It is the sleepy coastal towns of Queensland, Australia, that print their menus in Japanese...
...Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a country boy who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...