Word: cranked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...asterisk next to his name if you want, but good Lord, can Bonds hit. I bet he could crank out close to 100 homers if he saw anything decent at the plate...
...show entitled “ELECTROVIDEOMOVE,” the Royal Jelly Collective presents an evening of multimedia performance featuring the music of Vers, Scrap.edx, Codec and DJ Phat_mk3, the film of Produkt and Rat, the dancing of Nicole Bindler, Joe Burgio and Teresa Czepiel and special guest Crank Sturgeon. 7 p.m. $7 donation. The Zeitgeist Gallery, 1351 Cambridge St. Inman Square, Cambridge...
...with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp” remix. If the first Mississippi: The Album was cathartic and empowering, then this one only finds relief in a dull sort of violence...
...cultivating your garden and dying well, the show is at heart a cheerleader for American diversity. ?A perfect ?Sunday Morning? story? is one with challenges surmounted, often at an advanced age, as correspondent Rita Braver dewily nudges them onward. I?m a sucker for these heartwarmers, but the crank in me sometimes rebels. The syrup?s already on my pancakes, thanks...
With a political statement this pungent, Le Carre knows he runs the risk of alienating his sizable American following, even of coming off as a crank--an aging, forgotten ex-spook railing at the world from his Cornish crag. He also knows that he is leaving behind the sense of moral ambiguity that permeated his most acclaimed novels, trading those many delicate, literary shades of gray for a palette of clear-cut black and white. He has taken a stand. "I have a kind of middle-class constituency of fans who don't want me shaking the bars," he says...