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Secondly, Taylor fails to use his two greatest assets--his voice and guitar-playing--to their best advantage. For some unexplained reason, he persists in having background singers echo his lines in falsetto. The album is also devoid of overdubs of his own voice, a technique employed so masterfully in earlier songs such as "Shower the People...
...Alice breaks down into anguished, frustrated tears. This is the only sign in the film that Alice is at all torn by her two lives. But it still doesn't convey why she's allowing herself to be torn between two complete losers. The movie is completely devoid of psychology...
centerless, devoid of any vision of nature or mastery of hand: at best a mere cultural reflection, at worst...
...chiseled, Alvarez was struck by a configuration of sediment layers, which resembled a sandwich in stone. The bottom or older layer consisted of Cretaceous limestone, which was full of tiny fossils. On top was a second slice of limestone, from the Tertiary period, almost devoid of these fossils. Like other samples of rock from that era, it showed that the creatures alive during the late Cretaceous period had, by geological time scales, suddenly disappeared. In between the limestone layers was a dull red layer of clay about half an inch thick, first discovered by an Italian paleontologist around...
PEOPLE in Chicago must not be very intelligent. No member of the police force is capable of uttering either a calm sentence or a sentence devoid of profanity. Translations of Spanish interjections such as "diarrhea de boca" demonstrate the eloquence of the gangsters as well...