Word: canting
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...relaxed vocal style is a perfect match for Dr. Dre's bass-heavy producing. The songs on this album are built around '70s-style funk grooves; Snoop's voice is lithe enough to snake its way around the big beats. Tracks like Aint No Fun (If the Homies Cant Have None) are perfectly crafted to come booming out of Jeeps and college dorms...
...like all its predecessors, The Wine-Dark Sea sometimes tacks into some pretty choppy stretches of technicalities: "upper-tree, side-trees, heel-pieces, side-fishes, cheeks, front-fish and cant-pieces, all scarfed, coaked, bolted, hooped and woolded together." But such passages are there for atmospherics rather than information, and they sometimes seem to be delivered with an authorial wink. In one of the running jokes in the series, Maturin, far more comfortable on land than on sea, frequently doesn't understand what his shipmates are saying. Occasionally he feigns ignorance. When Aubrey uses the term "shaped the mast," Maturin...
...imagine how Sylvester Stallone's basic screen character would react to an environment like that. Perhaps the word violently springs to mind. And if you're up to here with '90s cant, there is a certain rude satisfaction in watching him blow it away -- along with a wide assortment of villains...
...Manhattan, preferring to paint in Southampton and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, which his family owned. This didn't put him out of contact with "the scene." Porter was an exceptionally gifted critic who, in Art News and the Nation, produced some of the most lucid and cant-free essays on modern art in general, and Willem de Kooning's work in particular, ever penned by an American. But he knew his own mind as a painter and needed to be in constant touch with his motifs -- American light, and the stillness of coastal field...
...conversational snippets alone make the book endurable, although they might be unintelligible to those unversed in the esoterica of post-modernism or unappealing to those weary of deconstructionist cant...