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...love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone" and the octave drop on that lusty "mm-mm" before the third verse. On one of the 1956 TV shows, he proudly called "Don't Be Cruel" "my biggest record," adding "'Course they...
...Finneran and take them for anything more than the empty platitudes we all crank out around New Year’s, only to consign them to eternal oblivion a few weeks later. There is little doubt that Finneran will “listen” to what his few vocal opponents say—but it’s what he’ll do afterwards that counts...
...pencil-necked vegan techno musician who criticized him for his homophobic lyrics. And yet this fall Eminem managed to win over even p.c. middle-aged white critics with his semiautobiographical movie, 8 Mile, playing a rapper from Detroit who defends gay men and pulls himself up by his vocal cords to escape wage-slave trailerdom. The movie's implicit premise is one that our public figures rarely acknowledge: that a poor white kid has more in common with poor black kids than with more-well-off white kids--that is, that class still matters in America. His obnoxiousness aside, Eminem...
...most vocal of the students in attendance last night was Chanda R.S. Prescod-Weinstein ’03, a member of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance...
...Nickles The most vocal support for Lott's departure has come from Oklahoma's Nickles, who is also considered his most likely replacement. In the week after Lott's disastrous comments became headlines, the Senate's second in command has made two things clear: one, he believes that Lott should be supplanted; and two, that there is a need for stronger (read: more conservative) GOP leadership in the Senate. "There are several outstanding senators who are more than capable of effective leadership and I hope we have an opportunity to choose," Nickles announced last weekend. Nickles, who has acted...