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...clue to an outstanding musical is one grand guiding metaphor. Company makes Manhattan a metaphor for marriage. Manhattan is an island of anguish and delight; so is marriage. Manhattan is an incessant roar of competitive egos; marriage is a subdued echo of the same. Manhattan is a meeting of strangers; marriage is a mating of strangers. Manhattan is a war of nerves; marriage is a ferocious pillow-fight battle of the sexes. The links do not stop there. The tempo of Manhattan is a kind of running fever; modern marriage runs a fever, and the partners are always taking...
...addition to providing fertilizer, guano bats are exceptional exterminators. It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year. Although a few bat varieties hunt by sight and smell, most rely on echo location, a natural sonar system. The bat emits high-frequency beeps that rebound when they strike any object, allowing the animal's receiver system to compute direction, velocity and distance instantly...
...echo of the late Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker, who once said that he designed his magazine for New York City readers and not for the tastes of "the old lady in Dubuque...
...classics, particularly Yesterday, Michele and Hey, Jude. His lyrics are best when least pretentious, as in Junk, a kind of sentimental word jamboree: "Bye, bye, says the sign in the shop window/ Why, Why, says the junk in the yard." Maybe I'm Amazed, however, is a pale echo of the choral sumptuousness of McCartney's The End, which served as the coda to Abbey Road, the hit 1969 Beatle album...
...voice was caught in a nelectronic echo chamber and the overlapping, intensified HEREHERE is finally cut off by two horizontals converging on the center...