phrase Quiz

Kenny G is a dull but wickedly consistent musician: automatic with his tremulous phrasing and canned licks, which formed fast, organized roils during his unaccompanied solos; melismatic purrings of the melody on ballads; and gospel _______ in R&B songs.

The movie is to dramatic representation what the book was to the manuscript. It makes available to many and at many times and places what otherwise would be restricted to a few at few times and places. The movie, like the book, is a ditto device. TV shows to 50,000,000 simultaneously. Some feel that the value of experiencing a book is diminished by being extended to many minds. This notion is always implicit in the _______ "mass media," "mass entertainment"—useless _______ obscuring the fact that English itself is a mass medium.  —Marshall McLuhan in "Classroom without Walls", Explorations in Communication[1]