Word: vocalisms
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...fair that the Diva Divine makes albums only as vacations from movies and motherhood, for her genius is as a singer-entertainer. Midler's vocal voltage and pristine song salesmanship are on display here in tunes by Leonard Cohen, Chuckii Booker, Carole King, Ben Folds--lots of fine folk. Her voice can ache with hard-won wisdom (on the first single, My One True Friend) or smile with the sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy...
Throughout the '80s, Harvard professors for the most part avoided involvement with South Africa in protest of apartheid, and then-president Derek C. Bok was a vocal supporter of work by the U.S. to prompt reform in South Africa...
...these days reading, thinking and talking about the Clinton crisis. Some have even called the threat that our president may be impeached a good thing: suddenly we're discussing politics and politicians, sex and sexual mores. Indeed, everybody's talking, and not just about the NFL or the weather. Vocal cords are vibrating coast to coast in serious, purposeful discussions in which people match wits, historical knowledge, personality theories, hunches, political philosophies and, above all, opinions about important public matters...
Elissa Hart, who is currently teaching eight grade in Washington, D.C., was a vocal person, according to Weiss...
Republicans have the comfort of expecting that in November voters will be more likely to punish the Democrats. After all, Clinton is the head of their party, while Ken Starr, a chronic loser in opinion polls, is not on the ballot. That's why a vocal and growing minority of Republicans, led by House whip Tom DeLay, is demanding that the full text of the report be made public as soon as it arrives. For different reasons, so did Democrat John Dingell of Michigan. Like many Democrats, he may figure that the details will come out anyway...