Word: vocalisms
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...scene was surreal on Saturday evening, when supporters of the triad of challengers - Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, 35-hour work-week architect Martine Aubry, and youthful left-winger Benoît Hamon - waged vocal battle with Royal's backers during her address, which was characteristically thin on concrete policies. Lusty waves of booing as Royal spoke were followed by standing ovations from her supporters; jeers unleashed by her calls for a coalition with centrists were quickly challenged by Royal supporters chanting...
...documents - whose authenticity is not in dispute - include e-mails written by Canary, long after her recusal, offering legal advice to subordinates handling the case. At the time Canary wrote the e-mails, her husband - Alabama GOP operative William J. Canary - was a vocal booster of the state's Republican governor, Bob Riley, who had defeated Siegelman for the office and against whom Siegelman was preparing to run again. Canary also received tens of thousands of dollars in fees from other political opponents of Siegelman...
...Goldeneye," Tina Turner Composed by Bono and the Edge and sung by Tina Turner, who gets into the same vocal space as Shirley Bassey did. She's a little camp, but not so camp that you can't enjoy the song as light entertainment...
...observer, would hardly seem possible coming from one man. His hands seem fixed, while the tips of his fingers rush across the frets and strings, creating a polyphony of rhythm and melody that would put all but the most accomplished fingerpickers to shame. While his instrumentals are undeniable, the vocal accompaniment he provides on songs like “Corrina, Corrina” is pleasant, even moving, if not a little rough around the edges. About a quarter of the way through the show, Kottke actually began to speak—first about how he never knows what...
...will go to someone else: A Duncan nod could risk upsetting Chicago mayor Richard Daley, a vocal advocate of the Chicago schools' chief...