Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle-market star to some otherwise TV-unfriendly material. Armand Assante is our Odysseus here. (Conversely, Halmi has a penchant for pairing unnecessarily qualified talent to schlock product. In his 1983 TV movie Svengali, a young Jodie Foster played an aspiring pop star in love with her aging vocal coach, a part that found Peter O'Toole forced to say things like, "When I make love to a woman, I unwrap...
Marie Daulne, the lead singer for the vocal group Zap Mama, has a personal history worthy of a leading character in a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick. After her Belgian father was slain in 1964 by rebels bent on ethnic cleansing, Daulne, a native of Zaire, and her Bantu mother took shelter with a tribe of pygmies before escaping to Belgium. With a background like that, it's no wonderDaulne makes music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity...
Daulne, 32, has a sad, splintery voice and an emotional clock that seems permanently set at midnight. Her background singers, harmonizing, chanting, even bleating, provide her with a vocal backdrop that's by turns naturalistic and a little coy. One song, the jazzy Nostalgie Amoureuse, feels like vocal film noir--shadowy and mysterious until, toward the end, Daulne's voice emerges from the mix with bruised passion. Other songs, like African Sunset, draw deftly on the upbeat music of South Africa's townships. But the best song is Daulne's seductive cover of Phoebe Snow's Poetry Man; that song...
...this year has witnessed a marked decrease in ethnic studies activities among students. This semester has seen only two sparsely attended panels and one weekend conference on ethnic studies. And a junior parents' weekend rally for ethnic studies was not as vocal or as well-attended as in previous years...
While the current drive does not call for a boycott, we encourage the council and HDS to become vocal supporters of this resolution to improve the lives of strawberry workers and to be amiable towards a boycott if the labor coalition feels that a boycott becomes necessary. For now, a simple endorsement by HDS is all that this being called for; HDS should move quickly to help improve these workers' lives...