Whitney's Great Oration
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 06:17PM
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This astonishing performance by the late Whitney Houston at the 1994 Grammies shows the emotional power of a classical oration: exhortation, narration, division, and killer peroration.  This Ciceronian outline works emotionally in a song as well as it does logically in a speech. RIP, Ms. Houston.

 

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