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...LOST HIS VOICE BUT WON JUST ABOUT EVERYthing else. On Sunday morning, speaking in Cincinnati, Bill Clinton could manage only 21 seconds of half whisper, half gasp; even on Tuesday night, making his victory speech, he still sounded strained and hoarse. It hardly mattered. By then the voters had spoken, and the election that briefly looked close had become anything...
Speaking in a dramatic cry which sometimes sankinto a whisper, West described how society makesBlack people into "markers" and causes thesimultaneous "loss of individual identity to thehomogeneous mob of Black Folk...
Last week, Trent Reznor took us 20 minutes into the future with his latest set of post-apocalyptic ditties, Nine Inch Nails' Broken. Like his industrial brethren Ministry and Skinny Puppy, Reznor revels in echo beats and electronic tom-toms in overdrive. His voice careens between a whisper and a roar, then lurches full throttle into screams that make Kurt Cobain look like Billie Holiday...
...habit of blending comedy with tragedy was often oddly unsettling. He crooned about his teenage boyfriend over the sway of ironically wailing violins. Or he waxed philosophical about the fact that "our bodies are only good for death"--stopping every ten seconds to adjure his penis in a harsh whisper to "get hard" and provide him with the grand final be that he needed...
There were also elaborate plans for a national censorship office called the Wartime Information Security Program, or WISP (as in whisper). A CBS vice president, the late Theodore F. Koop, had agreed to be the standby national censor, and about 40 civilian executives had consented to work as the unit's staff in wartime. A 1965 internal government memo notes that censorship manuals and regulations had been stockpiled, and a fully equipped communications center was established outside Washington. Press reports in 1970 exposed the existence of a standby national censor and led to the formal dissolution of the censorship unit...