Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are only six songs on Pirate Prude, arranged into two groups of three (on the vinyl version, that means side one and side two): song one is a long, gradually building, apprehensive work; song two is short, light, vocal-oriented, and witty; song three is the emotional punchline, with a memorable chorus and a slow riff to match. The first song on side two, called "ooo," includes both the sounds of hesitant fingers on a guitar neck and a periodic irruption of jazzy trumpet-playing, as if to dramatize some kind of contest between cool, sleek exterior (trumpets...
...take it harder than men. The overwhelming majority of the participants in postquake counseling sessions -- sometimes all of the participants -- are women. One hypothesis is that the female nesting instinct is especially offended by a quake's threat to home and hearth. More manifestly, women are more demonstrative and vocal about their anxieties. Men, who may be just as nervous, are culturally conditioned to hide it. "Fearfulness knows no gender," says Gellert. Experts disagree about the probable duration of the stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model of crisis resolution...
...aide: "At least in other settlements, Jews can move around without rubbing it in the face of the Arabs. Not the Hebronites." When they chose their home, the Hebron Jews meant to trumpet their presence in the West Bank. Now the government must contemplate ejecting them to send as vocal a message...
...most vocal proponents of thecustomary Western curriculum is department ChairThomas N. Bisson, Lea Professor of MedievalHistory...
Many national media sources have fueled this doubt by focusing on the reactions of a few vocal extremists...