Word: crutches
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...REPUBLICAN PARTY BECOME TOO STRIDENT UNDER YOUR SPEAKERSHIP? Go back to that period and look at the 125,000 negative ads run by the other side. The cover your magazine did of me after I was elected Speaker showed me as Scrooge holding Tiny Tim's broken crutch. That was over the top. On the other hand, if Bush had been President, I would have been a pussycat...
...cushy elective,” she found that she was doing her religion homework before anything else. She eventually added religion as a joint concentration with government, her chosen field, but says the readings in the religion tutorial, which focused on “religion as a psychological crutch,” as she puts it, only reinforced her agnostic tendencies...
...changes have been personal as well. He’s off of drugs, which he suggests had become a crutch to his creativity. “There was a sense of connection with the world, and with my creative self,” he explains, “that I would get when I got high ... [but] by the time I was really in the gutter of my drug career, I was barely writing at all; rather, getting high and wondering when the songs would come.” He has also picked up a first name, in place...
...plot of Miss Saigon is well known. That familiarity should function as an asset, but instead the creators use it as a crutch, never bothering to flesh out details or develop characters that seem human, let alone worthy of care. Adapted from the opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon follows the plight of a young Vietnamese woman, who takes up residence with an American G.I., only to be separated two weeks later when Saigon falls. The aftermath of their brief time together, including the future of the child she bears him, form what the show calls its plot...
...Raro because of the beats," says De Castro. "The soul fan loves my songs because of my soulful guitar, and the traditional Brazilian popular-music admirer catches the influences from Jorge Ben and Wilson Simonal that I put in." Yet De Castro doesn't use the past as a crutch. His originals, such as the elegiac Voce e Eu, are as strong as any of his sample-based compositions...