Word: vocals
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More recently, however, Cleary has stepped off the playing field and has been extremely vocal concerning the formation of Olympic "dream teams". One of the last Olympic purists, Cleary strongly feels that the Olympic Games belong to amateurs...
Even the track "Rilkean Heart", with gorgeous vocal harmonies and exquisitely timed instrumental accompaniment, is marred by Fraser's lyrical weaknesses. The song manages to sidestep the bottomless well of self-pity into which most breakup songs plummet, but Fraser still sounds as though she's reading from a self-help book: "I looked for you to give me transcendent experiences... I'm so sorry...
Twinlights' pinnacle is its remake of the obscure "Pink Orange Red." Like 1984's "The Spangle-Maker," their most accessible and popular song to date, "Pink Orange Red" never really resolves. The first minute of the song consists of Fraser's tentative vocals hovering over three muted piano chords. Fragile acoustic finger-picking and the barely audible pulse of synthesized strings are slowly woven in while Fraser's voice soars to subtly cathartic heights. The song ends by spiraling into a minute of vocal trilling that calls to mind the continuous, fluttering fall of autumn leaves...
...diabetic, suffered a stroke in November. The Crown Prince, while more of a traditionalist and an Arab nationalist than the King, is not likely to divert Saudi Arabia from its pro-American course. Meanwhile, Britain ordered the deportation to Dominica in the Caribbean of Mohammed al Mass'ari, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia's royal family. Saudi Arabia had threatened to curtail trade, including military purchases, unless London silenced al Mass...
...supporters, like its architect Gomes, continue to be quite vocal...