Word: vocalized
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...vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment. It's a coin toss to determine which one was the first modernist pop singer...
...Despite herself, she smiles at his line - "The clouds broke/ They broke and/ Oh, what a break for me!" - and the corniness of his stage-tenor rendition; he's given a vocal swoop to it and, on "Me," touched his heart. Will this rain never stop? She apprehensively glances outside; no change in the weather. He finishes the chorus with "Long as I can be with you/ It's a lovely day." She's still not won over...
...vocal is followed by three dance choruses, each one faster, jazzier, each bringing the adversaries closer to detente. After singing, Fred rises, twirls, strolls around the gazebo and whistles. Seated, not yet giving in, she whistles too. He walks past her, crooking his arm where hers might slip through. She doesn't take his arm, but does rise to follow him. They take a stroll, left hand in a pants pocket, then both hands in pockets; each step is a bit springier than the last. He is luring her out of a walk and into a dance...
...music breaks (at, aptly, the moment where the vocal would be "Oh what a break for me"), Fred executes his first big figure, spinning toward us and giving it a showbizzy, hands-out finish, then folding his arms as if waiting for Ginger to foul up. He dares her to match him and, through competition, to be a partner in his dance-romance. She does the same step, but to the left, with smaller arm elevation, and, instead of the beseeching capper, ends with a modest stamp of her right foot - abrupt, dismissive, ever-so-slightly Fred-deflating. Her message...
...changing landscape of American opinion on the subject, citing numerous state legislatures that have outlawed the practice. Dissenting from the majority were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who penned a scathing rebuttal to their colleagues' opinion. The three judges have expressed frequent and vocal displeasure over what they consider the Court's softening attitude toward the death penalty. For years there has been widespread speculation that Court moderates Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor are inching away from their steadfast support for the death penalty. Kennedy has cited his Catholic faith, which...