Enrique has Down syndrome and speech apraxia, which means that he cannot speak, aside from a few grunts and "Ma" in the word "Mama".
And because she rarely spoke — aside from what her 10 years in talking pictures demanded of her — we were free to hear her whispering to us in our dreams.
Avian double-speak aside, what does that mean exactly?
Legal speak aside, perhaps a more definitive description of the corporation is the one given by writer Ambrose Bierce -- a corporation is "an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility".
Techniques new to the modern theatre included spoken asides or soliloquies to express the characters' hidden thoughts.
When Johnson sounded as if he was improvising, as in the spoken asides in "Me and the Devil Blues," his identical asides in the second take proved that he was using a crafted routine.
He was fluently creative, making characteristically witty spoken asides, on tributes to Marty Paich and Woody Herman with the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra in 2004, and became a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and received a Living Legend jazz award from the Kennedy Center in 2007.
"Maladroit" is packed with clarion chording, clouds of aural sparks, background-filling vocal refrains, spoken asides, and call-and-response exchanges.
In a review for the group's second studio album Actually, Rob Hoerburger from Rolling Stone magazine commented that "West End Girls" was "as catchy as anything on the radio in 1986", praising "its enticing bass line and foreboding synth riffs", but felt that it was almost "nullified by peevish spoken asides and the cryptic posturing of the duo's lyrics".
There's a tension and dynamism – Alex Turner's bizarre speaking voice aside – that's awfully compelling, whereas with Chic you know exactly what you're getting – greatness, yes, but unvarying greatness.
Are we good enough to come out today and get the preparation that we need against a good Giants team?" Yoda-speak aside, San Francisco remains primarily a ground-hugging team.
