Word: flirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never smiles when he enters the cafe. Instead, he looks disdainfully at the customers, sizing them up, realizing that they are the same as those of past nights. The people in this cafe are here to drink and flirt with each other's wives, not to listen to his music...
...however, realize that; and this choppy, self-indulgent work fails even as an adolescent Chorus Line. While Parker has a good eye for projecting spontaneity--several scenes evoke the chilling chase through the streets of Istanbul in his Midnight Express--he has a cloying tendency to content himself with flirt and skirt, inadvertently erasing any semblance of passion that leaks through the surface...
...forged some common musical bond with the island music, doing it honor but making it their own in much the same way that the early Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Beatles excelled in revisions of American rhythm and blues at a similar point in their careers. The Specials flirt with social commentary and take on racial injustice in Doesn 't Make It Alright, whose straightforward lyric and fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs...