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...those who haven't heard them, Jarreau's swooping melody lines and improvisational growls, grunts and inflections can verge on startling. Perhaps more than any popular vocalist alive, he embodies the notion of the voice as a pure instrument. "When he gets into a flat-out jazz setting," says Heckman, "he lets it all hang out. And when he gets into one of his extended scat solos on something like Take Five, even the instrumentalists' mouths drop open...
...clicked off at 10:02PM local time, a scant skosh into the single hour of coverage given on all but the last night of conventions by the networks. But the networks replayed the speech. So the president was heard in spite of his party...
...release in North America. So U.S. audiences know him from those films, and from the 2004 Howl's Moving Castle, whose characters (and their dwellings and vehicles) seemed to spring from the mind of Joel Hodgson's Gizmonics Institute. People who hadn't seen Miyazaki's pictures might have heard his name mentioned on Oscar night: Spirited Away won an Academy Award for best animated feature, and Howl's was nominated in that category...
...Judging from the miles and miles of bumper to bumper traffic on the major highways, many residents are heeding the official warnings this time. New Orleans native and teacher Kevin Bachemin, 44, is one of them. He was planning to ride out the hurricane in the city until he heard the dire predictions of damage that Hurricane Gustav might cause...
...over. Even as Governor, Palin was still spotted at the market, driving her SUV around town, or worshiping at the nondenominational Wasilla Bible Church. On Friday afternoon, I was able to just pick up the phone and call Palin's parents, who live in town. They had just heard the news Friday morning themselves; they had been out caribou hunting and gold mining - how Alaska is that? - so there wasn't any advance warning for them. Her mother Sally told me this before remembering that she's not allowed to talk to reporters now, that they've been told that...