Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeah, he's like this guy in Misery: "Hey, move down. I want to chop off your leg. Can you do that...
...sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that routinely pits each against all in a relentless competition for parking spaces and aisle seats, to achieve the ecstatic merger with the mass represented by the wave or the chop. Besides, if this is the old Roman bread-and-circuses ploy, someone seems to have left out the bread...
...traditional, crowd-chummy highlight "Jane Says" suffered from the lack of steel drum, which was visibly pining away on the unused, chop-shopped second stage. Steve Perkins gamely took up that sad, child-like tin-role with normal drums, to surprisingly good effect. The old favorite, although inevitable, was actually made a surprise through Farrell's roundabout, shaggy-dog introduction. His lyrical patter with the audience was, in fact, more a highlight to the concert than not: however dippy, they were drenched with sincerity and often reached unexpected beauty...
...blending together. During one of the most sweeping and dynamic moments in the music, Juliet stands unmoving, simply staring out the window. During the Capulets' ballroom scene, against the darkly throbbing beat maintained by the brass, the dancers go through a ridiculous melange of half-flamenco, half karate-chop arm movements, shattering the image created by the music...
...real world. In all this it is an atypical self-help book. Stephen Covey, on the other hand, has the format down cold. His genius is for complicating the obvious, and as a result his books are graphically chaotic. Charts and diagrams bulge from the page. Sidebars and boxes chop the chapters into bite-size morsels. The prose buzzes with the cant phrases--empower, modeling, bonding, agent of change--without which his books would deflate like a blown tire. He uses more exclamation points than Gidget...