Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enliven his music--also, no doubt, to broaden his audience--and on his new album, Don't Look Back, he's chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker's classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad The Healing Game (Morrison also produced the album...
...performer is all about. Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music, and on his new album he?s chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker?s classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad 'The Healing Game.' '"Don?t Look Back' is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain?t No Big Thing tend to drag," Farley says. "But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make...
...teetery transition into the final act, when the two characters make their fiercest lunges for each other's throats. The Loeb production had its strongest moments here, as both actors uncovered a layer of rage they had not yet tapped. Their physical movements, formerly cagey and dry, were freer, sharper and more open. But by then, the show had already shipwrecked, its narrative power sunk by an essential emotional emptiness...
...good Jarrett, the usable Jarrett, is the cagey restless artist who warns us of marketing as a waste of energy. This is fine, if somewhat imprudent, advice, and we would do well to listen up. Unfortunately, there is a worthless side to the man as well, the Jarrett who counsels us to beef up our presence. In fact, this bad Jarrett comes dangerously close to contradicting his better self; after all, his presence, (and we take his grunting as evidence of it) is not all that different from self-promotion...
...been expected to leave soon to picket the Pope in New York City, claimed to be on "business" in San Antonio, Texas. There followed an exchange of some half a dozen phone calls that can only be called surreal. "We were doing business," says Johnson. "They were being very cagey. They were going to tell us when they got back what was going on. You couldn't get a straight answer. They were lying about a lot of things, that was obvious. I was screaming, 'What the hell is going on, are you O.K.?' And they're saying, 'Just calm...