Word: vocals
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Moore, meanwhile, has built up vocal support in his corner as well. The director and his producers have hired a team of political operatives to respond to industry attacks, including Chris Lehane, best known for his role as a consultant on the Gore and Kerry presidential campaigns. Moore has held several well-attended press conferences in weeks leading up to the film's release, and publicity for Sicko has included private screening on both Capitol Hill and Wall Street...
...same time, U.S. officials have suddenly become far more vocal than before about their unhappiness with the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki. The White House has been criticizing him in public, and both the Centcom boss, Admiral William Fallon, and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte made recent trips to Baghdad to tell al-Maliki he needs to quickly deliver some of the promised political deals on security and oil revenue with the various warring factions...
...most listeners the real draw is the melodies. On Icky Thump, there are four really good ones. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) stomps all over a passive lover's heart with a Led Zeppelin--quality riff and an impossibly effortless vocal, while the sweet, diffident A Martyr for My Love for You changes the pace and proves Jack White can sing ballads too. Along with Catch Hell Blues and Effect and Cause, they remind you that the White Stripes are at their best when they're at their simplest, with Jack...
...feel good for a few moments, and with Piaf's uncanny voice, still thrilling, still moving in her classic songs. It's easy to make us believe that her sad life conditioned the rueful timbre she imparts to her music. Maybe too easy. It's possible that her natural vocal quality was the one lucky accident in her unlucky life. Which, considering the fame, money and sympathetic regard she collected was not - considered from an objective viewpoint - all that unfortunate...
...Skocpol ascended to the GSAS deanship two years ago, just months after she emerged as one of the most vocal Faculty critics of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in the firestorm that erupted over his comments on women and science...