Word: velvetized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loyalty. It is the fallibility of the diva, the tension between her polished star exterior and the human being beneath, that ensures her appeal. Divas are subject as well to a society that views them as bizarre aberrations of nature, supernatural vocal powers; as Koestenbaum points out, the "velvet cord" that separated the diva from her richer and socially more elite audience in the 17th and 18th centuries still exists, albeit invisibly, and the diva's fame is hard-won and hard-kept once she is past her vocal prime...
...cafe plays recorded jazz music or brings inHarvard talent to perform. One guitarist, whoplayed some selections from Velvet Underground andCowboy Junkies in the cafe last week, notes thatthe atmosphere is conducive to music...
...film's greatest successes are its wonderful scenic design and cinematography. The Kittredges' Fifth Avenue apartment is precisely the kind you would envision. The huge window overlooking Central Park, the walls draped in red velvet and the expensive but rather eclectic mix of knickknacks and furniture, are terribly authentic...
...life, Zappa's music was both eclectic and uneven. At his worst he could be amateurish, as in the early Return of the Son of Monster Magnet. On guitar Zappa was no Eric Clapton, and as a band the Mothers were no match for Lou Reed's raw Velvet Underground, with whom they shared an in-your- face aesthetic that guaranteed zero radio play. At his best, however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else would have...
...also has an old card catalog box from Widener Library, full of tapes, and a "velvet" copy of the Mona Lisa on the wall outside her room...