Word: cornier
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...American, and he got his citizenship papers just before the U.S. team left for France. Regis was tutored for his citizenship test by other players, and soon after becoming an American answered his phone to hear the national anthem being sung by his teammates. It doesn't get cornier than that, but this U.S. team happens to be an amiable bunch in addition to being talented. But at least for the time being, American soccer players aren't famous enough to be arrogant...
...Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called "hot." What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. This is intended as a high compliment...
...Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. ?Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton? rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called ?hot.? What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing...
...ruefully about life and death and stuff like that. It is a conclusion that may feel anticlimactic after five months in which the novel's narrator has been hinting at a more hair-raising denouement. Still, like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions. You might even say the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does. Or maybe it is the palpable sense of his sheer need to write...