Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such occasional epiphanies, it all too often thrusts the analyst herself into the biography and we see the actual process of analysis. In the course of a treatment of Odets's private diaries, for instance, we are told that one entry "stops the biographer in her tracks with its bite and prescience, until she deduces it was written long after the fact...
Without the historical ties, whatever bite is left in the Phoenix would be gone--a point proved in part by this city's newest weekly, the Cambridge Express. Published by a New Hampshire concern also responsible for a putrid arts and lifestyle rag in Keene, the Express clearly is an attempt to capitalize on the death of the Real paper (indeed, you can find the Express on the rack marked "Real Paper" in many local drugstores). Perhaps it is unfair to judge a magazine after only three issues. Notice, though, that the Express puts its calendar listings in the front...
...Word is out that we're patsies--get your foot in our door and we'll never throw you out," he said, adding, "What we've got to do is bite the bullet. We need a strong national immigration policy--we need to attack the root problems...
...Eyen's cliched book and lyrics lack the wit and satiric bite that infused his Mary Hartman scripts. With lines like "Show business is a rough business, and it is a business," we feel we're watching a 1930s movie musical in technicolor with Bennett trying to do a Busby Berkeley turn. The choreography here however, lacks flair, Henry Krieger's music is a mediocre imitation of the '60s sound, and this extended, boring production reduces the audience to waiting for the girls' next costume change in their $1.5 million wardrobe...
Musically, the band is also confused. The most winning quality of their first three albums was the sharp bite of the guitar sound, the everpresent propelling drums of Copeland, and a liveness that defied the normal pitfalls of recording. Ghosts in the Machine, as the title implies, lets weird, ethereal, and blaring mechanical spirits defuse and diffuse all this. Change is not harmful in the music business; on the contrary, it can be as important as any lyrical or rhythmic talent. The Talking Heads have put out four dissimilar, yet nearly perfect, albums. The Police's first real experiment...