Word: chugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Here's my impression of me on a date in high school," Spade said. "C'mon--chug...
...trouble, if it is a trouble, is simply that of any fourth installment. The first wild surge of narrative invention has steadied to a reliable chug. The author's moves are clever and effective, but they are known. Her characters have told the darkest of their secrets. Erdrich's instinct, as the momentum of an anecdote is about to tail off, is to save matters with literary magic. This works, often brilliantly, but it works again and again, which may be a few astonishments too many...
...after day for several years, Lahti says he has faced numerous difficult and troubling circumstances. But he says he has continued to chug along, knowing that his spirited optimism has improved the lives of less fortunate people...
...ultimate success of any new opera, though, depends on the composer. Glass's stubborn refusal to "develop" his uncompromising idiom has exasperated some, who point to the more flexible, eclectic style of John Adams (Nixon in China) as a way out of the minimalist box. Glass's chug-chug style remains instantly recognizable, but his music has colored and deepened over the years. The Voyage lowers, thunders and rages -- it begins with the same six-note figure that opens Wagner's Die Walkure -- vividly reflecting Hawking's visions of terror and wonder and Columbus' dark and stormy night...