Word: velveteen
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...gray and rainy Saturday, five young men are gathered at the Body Guard music studio in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. The modest one-story building has only two rooms and no sign out front. Inside, the walls are lined with a velveteen fabric, the floor is covered in shag carpeting and there's minimal sound equipment - just a dated computer, two keyboards, a microphone and a mixing desk. The men are recording a track called "One Love," as King Fisher, the studio's founder and father figure to all the musicians who pass through it, sits at the computer...
...June 12 presidential election is Twitter. A service that broadcasts short (140 characters or less) missives, or tweets, over the Web or via text message, Twitter is basically a toy for flirting and telling people what your cat is doing. But in one of the Internet's great Velveteen Rabbit moments, the toy has become real...
Every Thursday night for the past 19 years, Rudolph Valentino has wordlessly fought the same rival and lost and won the same woman above the fading velveteen seats of the Majestic Theatre at Pomona (pop. 900), 30 km inland from the Sunshine Coast. And on most of those nights, Ron West has provided the silent movie's voice on his Wurlitzer pipe organ, playing swirly harp sounds when the heroine swoons, shifting to a sinister key when the villain appears, and pulling up short when the hero reins his horse...
...older kids that many of these new plays are geared toward are also the hardest to lure into a theater--especially a theater with "children's" in its name. When the Nashville Children's Theater staged Wrestling Season last spring, the crowds were thin. Old reliables like The Velveteen Rabbit are still the way to fill the theater--"the tyranny of titles," as some put it. There are those who argue, moreover, that the traditional book adaptations shouldn't be dismissed so readily. "It's more important to do Tom Sawyer now than ever," says Nashville's Copeland, "because...
...They had these velveteen seats at the [Wang] last night,” Tweedy said at one point. “And so I was like, ‘Hey man, I’ve got a jacket made of that stuff...