Word: voce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...involves methodically removing the croutons from their chicken Caesar salad. Though her science may be suspect, her earnestness is not. During the meal, she leans over the table to confide details from her fat, ugly past. "I have stretch marks from my neck to my knees," she says sotto voce. Her husband tells her they are battle scars. They are in love in ways that even Codependent No More never imagined...
...garde. In his mesmerizing new album he collaborates with hip-hoppers DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill) and Grease. They help bring his almost perversely abstract compositions back down to the street, grounding them with raw raps and blunt beats. Tricky remains endearingly elusive, delivering almost all his vocals sotto voce, winding his way through the shadows of his songs...
...first half of his program was all Chopin, beginning with the F-sharp Impromptu, Op. 36. A rich sotto voce approach was somewhat undone by an erstwhile banginess in the right hand; transparent scalar passages were a key ingredient in the strong finish. This piece reminded one of the best playing of the rude and unpredictable Vladimir Feltsman, who seems to patronize Mr. Zimerman's barber, if not vice versa...
CHRIS CARTER, creator of The X-Files, is going the extra light-year to make sure the future is filled with conventions where people in Scully and Mulder masks beg former extras on the show for autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company...
Last fall, the accepted wisdom among House Republicans was that Gingrich planned to give up the speakership next year to launch a long-shot campaign for President. He had said as much himself, sotto voce. And though few of his colleagues believed that the man with the lowest approval rating of any national politician in the U.S. could win the nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston...