Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cher has evolved into a polished performer with tremendous vocal abilities, comic timing, and a sleek, sexy approach to all she does. Through the tumult of the past ten years her star has continued to shine, and I can only hope that it will shine for ten times ten more...
...assess the army's front-line reports. You don't read about this in the newspapers, but they see full colonels fighting like hell and getting wounded. The army has done a good job defending Phnom-Penh. But it needs more recruits. Students, who are so vocal, always telling the government what it's doing wrong, are still exempt from the draft. The government has to be more energetic, more dynamic to get people into the army. It also has to clear the rocket belt. Rockets give the feeling of uncertainty. You don't know when...
...from a different angle. Few white stars rival the popularity or talent of Charley Pride, a black Alabamian, or Jonny Rodriguez, a Texas Chicano, and few have done more to revitalize genuine country music while incorporating some of the more adaptable elements of pop music--strings, pianos, and complex vocal accompaniments. Such artists have strengthened country music while enriching it with a new diversity, and have opened the way for other minorities. So what might have seemed impossible became inevitable, and finally happened: a rawboned Texan with a tall hat, a gunslinger moustache, and a cigar between his clenched teeth...
...their support for the Jewish State of Israel. A dramatic turn about of this type is probably not in the offing, for if support for Israel among Jewish students at Harvard is no longer as outspoken and unquestioning as it once was, this community--with a few isolated but vocal exceptions--is likely to maintain at least an ambivalent response...
...control of this sort is transformed into actual self-denial. Someone who is mildly embarrassed about his or her Jewishness, who is vaguely fearful about accusations of double-loyalty or parochial self-interest, and who only wants to be "just like everybody else" is hardly likely to be a vocal supporter of Israel even in the best of circumstances...