Word: vocals
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...country's influential Bishops' Conference charged her administration with "moral bankruptcy." Whisperings of an impending palace coup remain rampant among Manila's political observers. "I think the military will do a Thailand," says Harry Roque, an international-law professor at the University of the Philippines and a vocal Arroyo critic...
...harps and celesta. In Jupiter, the “Bringer of Jollity,” shimmering sounds glittered with high-pitches. The final movement, “Neptune the Mystic,” however, was the piece that truly captivated the audience. With the silent entrance and gentle, wordless vocal performance of an all-female choir on the balcony high above the orchestra, this final movement proved to be the grandest of finales. The choir acted as another of Yannatos’ instruments as the members alertly watched for his cues and perfectly complemented the orchestra with their voices...
...Larsen-Strecker share a common leadership philosophy.“I don’t think we’re that different in our leadership skills,” Demers says. “We both lead by example—we’re both not that vocal.”And Moore completes the threesome, serving as commodore this year.“She was voted commodore by the team, but there were a ton of people who could have been voted,” Demers says. “But she has a lot of ways...
...battling the martial polyrhythms of looped percussion tracks. On “Jigsaw Falling into Place,” Yorke sings, “What’s the use of instruments? / Words are a sawed-off shotgun.” There’s the usual amount of vocal retouching, but his spare lyrics are more point-blank then they have been in recent memory. They’re almost unfailingly ambiguous, yet they get deep beneath the skin—at least ours, if not his.“Weird Fish/Arpeggi” features the line...
...little added moisture would keep them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No more free agents; more investment in the farm system. Yet the franchise continued to sink, and fans grew more vocal. The Monforts' defensive reply: Tough...