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...make things worse, instead of the spicy language that real warriors use, the script forces them to blurt lines like, "I was as dumbfounded as you." Dumbfounded. I've never even heard even Archie Epps use that word in conversation--let alone a combat soldier...
...basis of distorted perceptions of fact, but on the basis of the facts themselves. If the editorial staff must have its fits of forgetfulness for the sake of argument, it is crucial to remember one thing: there is a distinction between constructive criticism and pointless platitudes. Anyone can blurt out ill-informed aspersions about Council proposals. But designing well-thought-out alternative measures if another thing indeed. The Council needs and welcomes constructive criticism. The Crimson has yet to demonstrate that it can give...
...strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers from Brooks Brothers. Byrne, eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously like the murderer and his victim. Perfect new-wave icons, then: psychotic preppies. The pure products of America in the process of going blissfully crazy...
...possible without Bacon's mastery of the physical side of painting. Much has been made of his reliance on chance, but it seems to have affected his life (he is an inveterate gambler, an addict of the green baize) more than his art. One could say the ejaculatory blurt of white paint in a painting like Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1968, is chancy, but that kind of chance is easily manipulated with practice, and it rhymes suspiciously well with other curves in the painting (like the back of the chair in the picture within a picture...
...American smiles and nearly always posed hitting, pitching or fielding. But now a touch of flamboyance is stealing into the baseball-card business (estimated sales: $45 million). While most cards retain the classic style, a few of the new designs might be enough to make Cubs Announcer Harry Caray blurt his famous "Holy...