Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stanton, a vocal defender of First Amendment rights, has played a very role in the development of radio and television since his appointment in 1946 as president and chief operating officer of CBS, a job he held for 25 years...
Student criticism of Chun, increasingly vocal in recent months, was brought to a head by the fifth anniversary of the 1980 uprising at Kwangju, 200 miles south of Seoul, in which thousands of students took over the provincial capital to protest the declaration of martial law. After South Korean troops moved in to put down the Kwangju uprising, 191 people were killed, according to the official count. Other estimates put the toll as high as 1,000. The U.S., say Washington officials, approved the sending of only one of the divisions that brutally recaptured the city. Nonetheless, some critics...
...things are, Susan gives Madonna an audience she can't reach with MTV or disco. When she sings she lacks the all-there quality of a great pop singer like Linda Ronstadt or Tina Turner. She disguises this with vocal intensity and good dance moves. The kids are so caught up in their own emotional storms that they don't notice it, but in the love songs Madonna is not in love, and in the heat songs, like Burning Up, she is not in heat. But in the funny songs, like the pop reggae Material Girl, she is very funny...
Transfer students have become increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the system. In February, transfer students flooded a meeting of the student-faculty, Committee on House Life (COHL), voicing criticism of a housing policy that only allowed them on campus as space became available, without any guarantees of ever getting into one of the 12 residential Houses...
Although it's fronted by a Frenchman, the Stranglers used to thrash harder and scream louder than almost any other band. But Jean-Jacques Burnel, the vocal power behind the band, anticipated the swing of the gustatory pendulum on their album, IV, alienating some of their hardcore spikes-n-nails support. Aural Sculpture, the Strangler's latest, completes their metamorphosis from outraged punk outcasts to ingratiating pop insiders...