Word: girlishness
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...singer watches a 15-year-old girl in love with music, in love with love, and remembers her own long-ago youth. The whole album provides Parton with a dandy career retrospective. She comes full circle to reconsider a lifetime of womanly misbehavin' in the purity of her girlish voice. We're < all grown-ups, she says, and still kids...
Steven Bocchino (Morales), Katie Tucker (Frasquita) and Jamila Roos (Mercedes), like the others, focused their efforts on good singing alone. Bocchino's stage motion in the first act singularly lacked purpose. And Tucker and Roos had little feeling in their performances, struggling with their portrayal of girlish ecstasy during the fortune-telling scene. But none of their voices left anyone disappointed...
...title of the ballet may be "Don Quixote," but most of the action and dancing centers around the young lovers Kitri (Trinidad Sevillano) and Basilio (Patrick Armand). Sevillano dances the flirty Kitri with technical brilliance and girlish charm. What Sevillano lacks in sauciness, Armand more than compensates for with his sexy, Don Juan appeal and spicy leaps and turns...
With her second album, Fat City, Shawn Colvin earns entry into this august group. For a start, she has a gorgeous voice that ranges from the jazz phrasing of Anita O'Day to the girlish soprano of primal folkie Carolyn Hester. Like her idol Joni Mitchell, whose husband Larry Klein produced the album, Colvin paints delicate word landscapes of analysand wonderlands. Like Carpenter, who sings backup on the anthemic Climb On (A Back That's Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring...
...Mitterrands, much of it with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly honest way of speaking and asking questions -- a far cry from her earlier repertoire of girlish smiles and playing dumb...