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Bright Eyes is honest but quavery, brittle
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Brian Orloff May 16, 2005 700+ words Conor Oberst, the 25-year-old wunderkind who records under the name Bright Eyes, is nothing if not ambitious. This year alone the singer-songwriter simultaneously released two albums: The first, "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning," continued in Oberst's traditionally folksy vein, and the other, "Digital |
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Going Ape Over Gibbons; But Not Willie's Weak...
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 18, 2002 700+ words ...devastating piece of work. Accompanied by an acoustic guitar and a quavery chorus of backup singers, Ms. Gibbons warbles, "God knows...voices and occasionally morphs into her heroes: the fragile, quavery falsetto of Joan Baez or, in the case of "Romance," the... |
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The candy band can. (singer and songwriter Jenny Toomey)
Magazine article from: Artforum International Kelly, Christina June 22, 1995 700+ words ...The band is project number three for the prolific and somewhat formidable Toomey, an unschooled musician whose formerly quavery-yet-pretty voice has gotten stronger and more often on key, perhaps through sheer force of will. Her main gig is singing... |
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Anthony Dubovsky at Cue Art Foundation.(paintings exhibition)
Magazine article from: Art in America Kernan, Nathan April 1, 2006 700+ words ...and a bearded man are separated by a bright vertical bar (a river?) in which a distant white horse is seen. Dubovsky's quavery touch and rich, subtle colors are very seductive. The paintings don't look like anybody else's, though artists as disparate... |
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Louise Bourgeois: Cheim & Read. (New York).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International Richard, Frances February 1, 2002 700+ words ...From the seated position, the recording, a singsong "murmur" in Bourgeois's own voice, seemed to fill the space. Quavery and light, the voice was childlike in pitch but also burnished, rough, palpably that of an elderly woman. As a portrait... |
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Painting ladies; A handsome show at Ancient Traders presents a trio of...
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Abbe, Mary June 7, 2002 700+ words ...ironing-board, autos, appliances) and body parts (eyes, hands). She collages the clips into droll paintings whose quavery pencil lines and period colors (blood red, baby pink, sky blue) are oddly reminiscent of '50s advertisements, New Yorker... |
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Rising and shining; With her band the Good Night Sleeps, Caroline Smith is...
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Nesvig, Kara April 19, 2009 700+ words ...petite powerhouse strums her guitar like a young, skinny, jeans-wearing Joni Mitchell and sings in a voice reminiscent of quavery Billie Holiday with a hint of wistful, folksy Feist. It's a pretty great voice, actually, good enough to draw the ringing... |
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I wish they'd give us a Ring; GOLDEN GIRLS: A scene from Longborough's Das...
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) July 27, 2008 700+ words ...Jennifer Holloway is a dour Hansel, Amy Freston a Sandman who can't be heard over the orchestra and Malin Christensson a quavery Dew Fairy who unfortunately can. In the pit, Lyon Opera's Kazushi Ono is a good conductor of the wrong piece. He over... |
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Wherefore art thou a Muslim?(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Butler, Robert September 1, 2002 700+ words ...deftly moving in and out of a wonderful variety of roles. Clive Francis plays Aunt Augusta, a shrunken figure, with a quavery voice, a twitching mouth and waspish remarks. Jeffrey Holland plays a CIA operative and his teenage daughter. Andrew Greenhough... |
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Portrait of an artist as the real Ripper; review.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Hughes, Kathryn November 17, 2002 700+ words ...During BBC1's recent episode of Omnibus to accompany the publication of this book, Patricia Cornwell explained in a quavery voice how she has spent millions of dollars and stopped 'having a life' in order to nail, once and for all, the identity... |
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Book article from: Contemporary Musicians ...Friedman and Larry Birnbaum wrote in Down Beat , “ Contrasting markedly with the often pinched and nasal or raw and quavery tones of young players, Fred plays in the smoothly rounded fashion of a latter-day Lester Young on a speed jag. …... |
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