Word: vocalisms
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...Business of Strangers, playing a businesswoman who sets out to revenge herself on all men by - shades of Oleanna - accusing one of rape. Her malevolent turn earned Stiles comparisons with Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Stiles, raved the New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, "brings a focused intelligence and vocal command to her portrayal that suggest she is the actress of her generation most likely to inherit the kind of powerhouse roles associated with Close and [Jane] Fonda in their 30s and 40s." Those qualities, it turns out, transfer easily onto the stage, making Stiles blaze with hate and pain...
Quannam artists are making a name for themselves for having engaging and innovative live shows, and this tour was no exception. In addition to the usual vinyl beats, a male and female soul singer lent their vocal talents to the various artists, bringing a more human connection to a lot of the material. The two volcalists are a common presence at Blackalicious shows, and one of the singers, Joyo Velarde, is even releasing her own album on the label soon...
...move caps a month in which the University has been vocal in its reaffirmation of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision on school desegregation. A series of panels and lectures that ran from April 12-17 drew luminaries from both the legal and educational worlds, including President Lawrence H. Summers and Fred Gray, who served as legal counsel for both Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks...
...Where are the Harvard black men in this room?” Williams asked the audience, which included only eight black men. “We need more brothers out here,” he said, calling for black men to be a more vocal presence in their communities...
...find hip-hop lyrics compelling for entirely different reasons. With hip-hop, the vocal delivery, the form, is so inextricable from the actual content that you’re forced to listen to the words. This must be why good rappers don’t really have to say much in order to say “something”—whether their message is clouded behind metaphors or squashed by battle rhymes, the way they explore the limits of rhythmic interplay, timbre and inflection using real words somehow validates everything they say. It makes the words seem...