Article: Shania Twain

Article: Twain pushes buttons with fashionable new CD.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ......This collection of songs about Twain's brand of feminism is the...sure where to draw them, said Twain. A teenage tomboy, she wanted...getting touched when I didn't want to be. I was getting glared at when I didn't want to be. So I hid it. But as Twain, now 32, got older, I realized...the ...

Article: Shania Twain: From Rags to Riches, CBS
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather;  February 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ......talking about. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TWAIN: Still the one -- you're still...to, you're still the one I want for life -- still the one...every time you go out on stage? TWAIN: Well, it feels wonderful because...dirt poor. But I also don't want them to get the impression...be famous someday. Did you? ...

Article: A country angel spreads her wings // Shania Twain comes of age musically
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ......with subtle Cajun fiddle and Twain's classic rock yelps. ``I...Stupid (You Know I Love You).'' Twain's snappy retort, ``Don't freak...than on my other albums,'' Twain said. ``Maybe that's why things...as a group before - ever,'' Twain said. ``And yes, while writing...hearing it as fiddles. But I ...

Article: TWAIN SHALL MEET HER LEGIONS OF FANS ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR.(What's Happening)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......through the summer of 1999. Twain said the biggest challenge in...sold out the first morning,'' Twain said, sounding surprised...Here' and `Any Man of Mine,''' Twain said. The songs on ``Come on...two message songs - ``If You Want to Touch Her, Ask,'' a song...set between boy and girl,'' ...

Article: Shania Twain's rocky road to country stardom Behind Madonna image, a life marked by tragedy
The Boston Globe;  February 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ......were killed in a collision with a loaded logging truck. Twain had often helped her father, an Ojibwa Indian, in the forests...by Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Charlie Pride. When Twain's parents died, a friend helped her get a singing job at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario, where Twain ...

Article: Twain set for Milwaukee, Madison County singer plans to appear at Summerfest, Kohl Center in July
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 18, 1998 ;     486 words ......with Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and John Michael Montgomery. Twain plans to stay on the road to the end of 1999. Any speculation...help in the studio or I'm not confident as a performer," Twain said. "Anyone who thinks that doesn't know my history." Before hitting it big, Twain toured for years in Canada as ...

Article: Shania Twain Adds Spice to Country
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 7, 1995 ;     700+ words ......There were several people I tried to emulate vocally," Twain said. "Karen Carpenter was a big one when I was really...not until my teenage years. And Waylon Jennings." When Twain was 21, her parents were killed in an autombile accident. Music then became a healing tool. Twain immediately got a job ...

Article: FIST-PUMPING MUSIC FILLS SHANIA TWAIN'S CONCERT BY GENE STOUT SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.(PREVIEW)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 13, 1998 ;     697 words ......no experience with at all.'' Twain said the biggest challenge in...sold out the first morning,'' Twain said, sounding surprised...Here' and `Any Man of Mine,' '' Twain said. The songs on ``Come Over...two message songs -- ``If You Want to Touch Her, Ask,'' a song...set between boy and girl,'' ...

Article: STEP ASIDE, PATSY : TOPPING CLINE'S SALES MARK, SHANIA TWAIN AT COUNTRY MUSIC FOREFRONT.(L.A. LIFE)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 24, 1996 ;     700+ words ......like a divider. It's kind of late to try and claim me.'' Twain, whose ``The Woman in Me'' album recently surpassed ``Patsy...ceremony will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on NBC (Channel 4). Twain, who won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Country Album...You don't have to be from Nashville to sing country,'' Twain ...

Article: TWAIN WOULDN'T MIND GORE ON HIS RIVER
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  August 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ......family lost a fortune in real estate) and a pizza parlor (Twain never touched the stuff). This week, that name, image and...American people by going down the Mississippi River to Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Mo., on the Mark Twain Riverboat. What kind of symbolic freight do they hope to...river, which ...

Article: TWAIN'S SHOWMANSHIP CONNECTS WITH UPBEAT BOWL CROWD.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  May 8, 1999 ;     492 words ......carried her through the adoring audience. And that sums up Twain's show: a little bit of magic, a lot of spectacle, total...sound came from the speakers followed by fireworks and then Twain's disembodied voice asking, ``Are you ready, L.A.?'' Skipping...singer who has won the hearts of both country and pop ...

Article: Mark Twain's Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World (1897)
The Arizona Quarterly;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......classic example of Twain's "brilliance" as a humorist and of Twain's digressive method in his travel writings, insofar as...hills" outside Heidelberg clearly links the teller Mark Twain both with his Sierra Nevada narrator, Jim Baker, and with...forest-ravens with even better language skills than ...

Article: Twain says her career is ready for conquests Singer rides success from `The Woman in Me'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 18, 1996 ;     348 words ...Shania Twain likes to sprinkle her conversations with words and phrases...conquer," "blow you away" and "knock people off their feet." Twain, one of the hottest artists in country music, is convinced...beginning included the massively successful "The Woman in Me." Twain and husband-producer-songwriting ...

Article: TRACKING TWAIN'S DIG AT CINCINNATI.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  January 10, 2002 ;     278 words ......Bird ''When the world ends I want to be in Cincinnati, because...there 10 years later,'' - Mark Twain? It is probably the most famous and often used Mark Twain quote in these parts. Reporters...there's no evidence Mark Twain ever said it. In researching...