Word: voce
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...castle. ?Stand here and you can see both the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building,? I would say, civic pride mingling with aesthetic awe as we indicated the world?s tallest glamorous building and its downtown elder brother, Cass Gilbert?s neo-Gothic Cathedral of Commerce. Then, sotto voce, I?d add with a dismissive wave, ?And the World Trade Center.? In our glittering family of commercial monuments, the towers were the hulking twins who could aspire to nothing more lofty than playing right and left tackle for the Jets...
...Trama label), De Castro's lyrics, all in Portuguese, have an engaging, understated simplicity. The title song compares the movement of a beautiful woman to a samba (Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes made a similar comparison on their bossa-nova standard The Girl from Ipanema). Another song, Pra Voce Lembrar, tells the story of a man who breaks up with his lover during Carnaval. As the easygoing lyrics glide by, the focus for listeners is on De Castro's stuttering, intricate rhythms and his rich, involving melodies. "I tried to show that sometimes the melody and the rhythm are more...
...Castro. "The soul fan loves my songs because of my soulful guitar, and the traditional Brazilian popular-music admirer catches the influences from Jorge Ben and Wilson Simonal that I put in." Yet De Castro doesn't use the past as a crutch. His originals, such as the elegiac Voce e Eu, are as strong as any of his sample-based compositions...
...question. "What would you do," Haggett began, "if we put a married priest in your parish?" The bishop replied gravely, "Well, I?d have to put an end to it, I suppose." Haggett pressed on. "But what if no one complained?" she asked. The bishop paused before answering sotto voce. "Then I?d just look the other...
...Hell, and pointed out that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Just like me, you can hear him adding sotto voce. Blake could and did draw monstrous demons, but Milton's beautiful Lucifer, son of the morning, was never far from his mind. Lucifer's greatest manifestation is as the idealized Apollo-like form of Isaac Newton, emblem of the cold reason Blake abhorred as against divinely granted perception, seated naked...