Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actress-singer orchestrates her vocal versatility and preternatural empathy to slip inside the spirit of each song. Performing the title tune from The Rose, the lovely mantra of regeneration that has become Bette's Over the Rainbow, she sings in her own haunting alto. But she can go seductively nasal for E Street Shuffle, chicly bonkers for Twisted, brassy and clinging for her evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea...
After dumping my Adidas on one of the many shelves, I hopped through the icy foyer into the warm, incensed air of the Krishna center. I was late, and an enthusiastic vocal mishmash of "Hare Hare'' was already pouring from the ceremony room. Parquet floors and velvet-tinsel wallpaper surrounded a gleaming swirl of wooden staircases and crystal chandeliers --it seemed more like a British bed'n'breakfast than an eastern temple, and my brain-washing scenario faded in the face of architectural banality...
...apparent weakness of Aquino's grip on the situation was highlighted by vocal opposition to the draft constitution. Political forces of both the extreme left and extreme right joined in attacking the constitution which ensures, among other things, the continuation of Aquino's presidency until...
HARVARD PROFESSORS long ago discovered that by vibrating their vocal chords at various frequencies they could create air displacements that would smash educationally into the oddly shaped fleshy mounds that hang, often quite humorously, off the sides of students' skulls...
...ignored the vocal tube and threw an empty can of beer...