Word: highlighting
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...make an album in the tradition of the television show that launched her career. As any follower of “Idol” will know, its judges and producers have always maintained a healthy distaste for melody or, indeed, music in general, preferring to applaud and highlight performances of vocal excess, culminating most often in “glory notes.” It is an aesthetic comprehensively rejected by the record-buying public, if the album sales of most “Idol” winners are any indication. The key to Underwood’s prior success...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On the risks of unprotected sex: "Globally, HIV is the leading cause of death and disease in women of reproductive age. Some studies show that women are more likely than men to acquire HIV from an infected partner during unprotected heterosexual intercourse ... Young women tend to have sex with older men who are more sexually experienced and more likely to be infected with...
Marine said she saw this event as an opportunity to highlight the idea of music as activism, feature women in non-traditional fields, and offer an inter-generational perspective to female college students...
...sense of morality into the health-care debate and other floor fights. He famously characterized the Republican approach to health care as “don’t get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly,” and has continually used his floor speeches to highlight the deaths that result from America’s lack of national health insurance...
...only 13% strongly feel their transition back to civilian life is going well. "They are a vulnerable population, especially during the transition home," says the study. Those rocky returns have led to higher-than-average rates of homelessness, unemployment and suicide; the shootings at Fort Hood last week highlight just how malignant the stresses of military service can be. (See pictures of the tragedy at Fort Hood...