Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene is evidence of an increasingly vocal campaign by some Israelis to stop the final phase of the government's withdrawal from the Sinai next April, when this northern strip of the desert is scheduled to revert to Egypt under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful...
...effort to develop "an active and vocal response to conservatism on a grass-roots level" a Harvard sophomore is setting up chapters of a national progressive organization on 30 collegecampuses statewide, including Harvard...
...last Sunday afternoon) presented the Emerson string quartet--an award-winning group that in five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...
Both are mistresses of bel canto and equal to its cascading vocal fireworks...
...opera house, Benatar would have been typecast as a pert soubrette because of her size (5 ft., 90 Ibs.) and high vocal range. Instead, she cracked the male-dominated rock world in a hurry. In just two years since the release of her first LP, In the Heat of the Night, she has sold 3 million singles and 7 million albums, riding her sultry, powerful voice and sexy stage demeanor to a 1981 Grammy Award...