Word: yelps
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...Dion makes the mistake of having opera star Luciano Pavarotti join her in a duet. Now, inviting Pavarotti to sing a fluff-headed pop song is like asking Picasso to paint your house--it's just not practical. Pavarotti's big, clear tenor easily trumps Dion's showy yelp, and he doesn't stop there--he goes on to overwhelm the song's flitty lyrics and thrash its slight melody. Final score: Pavarotti: 3, Song: 0, Dion: 0. And while we're at it, give Dion a zero for this album...
...true America, Mike Bryan contends--and often proves --you have to bypass the blue highways and quaint backroads and hit the Interstate. This he does with the engagingly curious open-mindedness of a true odologist, riding in state-patrol cruisers equipped with "three different sirens--wail, yelp and hi-lo"--and cross-examining moteliers and roadside philosophers at places like the Wes-T-Go Truck Stop outside Abilene, Texas, not so far from where Lee Johnson shows off a half-million-dollar motor coach that does 1,500 miles to a tank...
...surprised yelp when that insidious little thought entered our head. We don't want to diet. We hate dieting! We shouldn't have to be thin, and if you think we should, you can go to hell...
...grain--which is just unbelievably communicative and charismatic. Like Lou Reed before him, he can't actually sing all that well, but it's those strange textures in his voice, the moments where it breaks, where a note out of his range is covered by a defiant yelp, that make him unique in the first place...
...Tommy's is--how should we put this?--friendly. A little too friendly, we think. Part of Tommy's old charm lay in its rudeness. We don't want to be asked how we like our food. We have certain expectations: gruff service, unapologetic, a rude yelp at closing time...