Word: effortless
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...friend once told me he'd be happy to hear Neko Case sing passages from the phone book. It's no wonder. As on Case's previous three studio albums, the voice on her latest release, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, sucks you in with its seemingly effortless power and range, an intoxicating quality that blends the best of country and gospel. Her voice is the strongest instrument on the album. Every song feels as if it were written around...
...commemorating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Levin truly steals the show in the performance, showcasing his extraordinary gift for making the music of Mozart come alive, especially after the spellbinding cadenza at the end of the first movement. In addition to making piano concertos look effortless, Levin never failed to ham it up whenever on stage. As an exceptionally captivating performer, he was constantly animated, ensuring that his audience was always entertained. When he was not playing, he casually put his elbow up on the piano and turned his entire body around to face the winds...
...negotiated [becoming the first openly gay black Mayor] in a way that seems effortless, and I admire that,” says close friend and Quincy House Resident Tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. And though Massachusetts is the first state to allow gay marriage, Reeves has elected not to marry, at least not just...
...work and play that every artist must find. “The mentality is that you study in order to party, or you commit to something in order to do something else,” she says. Her voice is deep and melodic. She moves with a kind of effortless and powerful grace, trailing scarves, pins, and beads.Mallardi is a lecturer on the dramatic arts at Harvard. She’s not a taskmaster, but in four decades of teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe, during which she virtually built the dance program from scratch, she’s learned that...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there...