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...Jersey Hustle") that was half funky and half funny, a far cry from the macho movements of Elvis Presley or the pretentious saunterings of Mick Jagger. When he wasn't dancing, he ran or shuffled around the stage, twitched spastically (like a less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black shirts, and white fedoras (the kind of outfits you see on men who wear ruby cluster pinky rings) Clemmons and Van Zandt looked like...
...beat constantly punctuates Taupin's lyrical line in arresting ways. There is a curious blend of sophistication and primitivism in Elton's assertive piano style that makes it an instantly recognizable musical signature-as unmistakable in its way as a Beach Boys harmony or Joe Cocker's sandpaper rasp. Elton's own voice is a supple instrument. He can growl like Mick Jagger or sing an insinuating lyric plaint. He writes for himselfnot surprisingly with supreme correctness, confidence, even elegance. To an unusual degree, he is the only one who can effectively sing...
...insisted that the fund was used for political and not personal expenses, that he was a man of modest means whose wife did not wear mink but "a respectable Republican cloth coat," and that yes, there was one gift he was going to keep - a black and white cocker spaniel named Checkers. Though many found "the Checkers speech" full of cant and treacly sentimentality, the flood of favorable telegrams persuaded Eisenhower to execute a smart about-face. "You're my boy," he told Nixon...
...gives them a long, graceful sloping line, but makes walking progressively more difficult. Chihuahuas, bred for large, domelike skulls, are often born hydrocephalic, become snappy and irritable as excess fluid presses on the brain. Neurophysiologist Richard Redding of Alabama's Auburn University has performed lobotomies on 15 schizoid cocker spaniels whose unpredictable behavior oscillated between cuddly and violent...
...Cocker Spaniel...