Word: vocalisms
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...Matory has been a vocal crusader for all things right and just at Harvard, from the vote of “no-confidence” he spearheaded against He Who Must Not Be Named in March 2005, to his Sept. 14 Crimson op-ed accusing the Harvard community—including the Jews on The Crimson who agreed to publish the piece in the first place—of censoring anti-Zionist opinions...
...these hosts, deciding whether to go back on the air involves a delicate balance of public image and private ego. Leno, for instance, has been the most vocal supporter of the union - even bringing doughnuts to the picketers on the first day of the strike - and would seem the least likely to reverse course and go back on the air. Yet Leno also seems more closely tied to his scripted material and might be less able to smoothly transition into an unscripted show than hosts who are more natural ad-libbers, like Letterman and O'Brien...
...same way that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...
...Spider in the Snow”—you’re the spider, by the way—best embodies the album’s alienated tone. As the band disinterestedly shifts from lazy funk to Radiohead’s electronic quaver, Morrison’s bored vocals are an emotional dead weight: “How can a body move the speed of light / And still find itself in such a rut?” On “Gyroscope,” the band jerks along through the first verse, negotiating frequent time changes. Jason Caddell?...
...could win an Ivy championship, we could do this and that, but people have done that before, and no one’s ever played a night game here.”For now, though, Van Niel’s focus rests solely on applying to vocal schools, beating Yale in The Game and, all the while, not completely forgetting about school.“I’d often dream, ‘well, great, I’ll be able to sing, I’ll be able to play football, and hopefully I won?...