Word: vocalisms
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Consequently, an MIT assistant coach and alumni player were used as officials, with predictable results. Members of both teams were vocal in their complaints throughout the match...
...business to pursue is show business. Get ready for dramatic recitations and piano flourishes, tap dancing and clog dancing. To ensure again that TV viewers will be exposed to more opera on this one show than in the rest of the year, five of the 50 promise a "classical vocal." Classical, perhaps; classic, perhaps not. To have a "talent" is not always to be talented. Then again, anticipating the mangling of a high C is one of the evil joys of pageant watching...
...last month in New York City, D'Angelo was ushered on stage by his band playing the theme from Shaft. And on his new album he delivers a mellow, unpretentious version of Smokey Robinson's classic Cruisin'. D'Angelo, 21, has a pleasant, floating falsetto, and he shows his vocal skills off well on Cruisin' as well as on the romantic, melodic Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine. He could, however, work a bit more on his lyrics, which lack the lubricated finesse evident in the rest of his songcraft. On Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine...
...murder trial of O.J. Simpson was once again awash in the racial animus of former L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman. A series of witnesses vividly testified before the jury about the detective's vocal hatred of blacks and his repeated use of the epithet nigger. Fuhrman was dramatically dragooned back into the courtroom, where (with the jury absent) he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination when asked about his truthfulness and the possible planting of evidence in the case. At the behest of the prosecution, an appeals court reversed a ruling issued by Judge Lance Ito that would have allowed...
...Justin Franz is one of the best natural leaders I have ever been around. He's just one of those kids that both by example and certainly from a vocal standpoint is very inspirational...