Word: vocalism
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...feel good for a few moments, and with Piaf's uncanny voice, still thrilling, still moving in her classic songs. It's easy to make us believe that her sad life conditioned the rueful timbre she imparts to her music. Maybe too easy. It's possible that her natural vocal quality was the one lucky accident in her unlucky life. Which, considering the fame, money and sympathetic regard she collected was not - considered from an objective viewpoint - all that unfortunate...
...lyrics ("Now that it's raining more than ever/ Know that we'll still have each other/ You can stand under my umbrella") owe more to Doris Day than Madonna. But Rihanna, a Barbadian ex--beauty queen who just released her third album, has a special talent for vocal innuendo. She toys with the word umbrella--or, as Rihanna would put it, um-ba-rella, ella, ella--as if she's taking it for a ride on a water bed. It's hard to believe there will be a sexier song this summer...
...Skocpol ascended to the GSAS deanship two years ago, just months after she emerged as one of the most vocal Faculty critics of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in the firestorm that erupted over his comments on women and science...
...longer accused of lecturing from my lecture notes. The main and often vocal complaint now is that I don’t teach my students anything—they have to learn it all on their...
Rubin, a personal friend of Summers who initially expressed support for an external candidate with an assertive leadership style, was one of the most vocal questioners in the room. Lee, who had grown to be one of Faust’s most ardent supporters toward the end of the search, also actively grilled his candidate, the sources said...