Word: cleverisms
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...together from '60s and jap pop, hip hop beats, funk threads, classical samples, bossa nova riffs and exotica, running on smooth easy-listening gas. Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi blend and blush an all-Japanese soundtrack to the imaginary lifestyle of the international playboy/girl set. "Rolls Royce" is experimentally clever but strung on an annoying shrill that detracts from adorable bubbletunes like "La Dpression," "Playboy Playgirl" and "A New Song." More schnazzy than riding a carpeted, mirrored elevator to heaven with Audrey's cosmopolitan in your hand...
...side sophomore Chris Clever threw 65.96 meters in the javelin--well below his season-best of 69.54 meters--to take fourth in the event...
...side, sophomore Chris Clever threw 65.96 meters in the javelin--well below his season-best of 69.54 meters--to take fourth in the event...
Hwang hints at this role reversal in the title with M. for Monsieur in place of Madame. This clever touch is hardly subtle. While he successfully manages to assemble a vast panorama of social and political issues, Hwang sometimes tries so hard to get his point across, he practically beats it into our heads with a sledgehammer. His message is an important one, but its didactic presentation eclipses the humor he tries so hard to achieve...
...British had warned Italy not to let the ship sail, and an Italian gunboat prevented its departure. A clever Italian woman, the liaison between the Jews and the Italian government, coerced an Italian admiral into diverting the gunboat...