Word: gaspingly
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...humored three-chord assaults--and luxuriated in it for almost a quarter century. But before his death last year, the singer, Joey, got relatively experimental on his first and last solo album. Relatively is the key word here: he fits five, sometimes six chords into a single song, and (gasp) evinces a heartfelt concern for social issues. But the first track, a cover of What a Wonderful World, makes up for the general dearth of originality by wedding Joey's affectless vocal style and kick-butt guitar arrangements with Tin Pan Alley poetry and tunefulness. It's proof his comic...
...Satan,” it was savaged mercilessly by critics, who opined that “burning in hell might be a better option than seeing another film by Schwarzenegger.” With a cool reception at the box office, the film was seen as the last gasp of a fading star. As it turned out, Arnold was still good for another gasp, namely 2000’s evil twin picture The 6th Day. Arnold called the film “timely” in its discussion of cloning. Audiences found it timelier to avoid the film altogether...
...that is Britney Spears’ Crossroads. Not only does she recite the lyrics of “Not A Girl...Not Yet A Woman” as a poem around a campfire to the Handsome Stranger, she also forgoes a career in medicine to audition to become a (gasp) pop star in Hollywood. Prancing from one scene to another, Spears displays a jaw-droppingly diverse acting range in her film debut: She smiles, she pouts and then she smiles some more—but with feeling...
That campaign, observers say, may have been the last gasp of the liberal activist tradition...
After the sloppy turnovers around the two-minute mark, Harvard would make a few last-gasp efforts to get back in the game but could never get any closer than seven after a three-pointer by junior Laura Barnard with 1:12 to go closed...