Word: entendu
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...even then, the only slightly different line “Hey, hey, you!” is a central motif. That title track is perhaps best representative of everything that goes wrong on the disc. The staleness of the song’s lyrics perfectly complements the deja-entendu feeling one gets upon listening to it. In a brief, speak-singing interlude, she spells out the words that make up her lyrics while squeaky girls giggle in the background. Lavigne sounds far too much like another pop star on the track, without matching her ingenuity...
...reunite you with your darker side. Their new album, “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me,” is their third studio album after debut “Your Favorite Weapon” and 2003’s mainstream success, “Deja Entendu.” This new album marks the major label debut for the Long Island band. Typically classified under the broadening genre of emo, Brand New writes songs with wit and sarcasm that transcends stereotypical Dashboard whining and instead conveys a convincing melancholy, reminding you that perhaps the world isn?...
...Tryon's narrative and descriptive talent is often hamstrung by annoying mannerisms and cliches (in a scant two lines he tosses off "fresh as a daisy" and "in the wink of an eye"). He can resist neither foreign phrases nor their quick translation ("Entendu. Understood"). He fussily overexplains his English as well: "Her husband was a hatter. Yes, a maker of hats." Some of the language is, alas, inexplicable: "His nose was long and authentic-looking...
...paid much attention to the rally. A Southern woman emceed a few deja-entendu speeches, and exuberantly drawled, "Right On!" after each one. When the speeches were over, telephone contact was made with representatives of North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG) in Paris. The representatives' voices were amplified over the rally's sound system, and the crowd made a short attempt at reverential attention. The Vietnamese made two speeches--little rhetoric, little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces...
When Franklin Roosevelt's No. 1 Good Neighborhood agent, grey and graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...