Word: gimmick
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...Shape Of My Heart,” placing these songs of anguish and introspection firmly and successfully in “Thug Life” territory. Nine solo albums deep, Pastor Troy has finally turned his high-pitched battle cry of a voice from a gimmick into an asset. “UH-HUH!” ad-libs aside (and who could imagine P-Troy without those?), these raps are musically and rhythmically sound, delivered right on the beat and with plenty of nuance. The reference points here are DJ Paul and Ice Cube’s delivery...
...studio craftsman began with 2002’s “Tallahassee,” which dispatched with the distinctive fuzz and grainy vocals completely. The switch to the studio ultimately proved that Darnielle’s songs didn’t rely on a gimmick, and could stand up in a high-fidelity context. On “Heretic Pride,” the studio flourishes and Darnielle’s songwriting are better integrated than ever. In “San Bernadino,” for instance, an elegant string section provides the only instrumentation. It?...
...impressed. While not wholly opposed to video surveillance, the group thinks it's been oversold as a crime-prevention method. "There's no evidence whatsoever that it actually deters crime," says Jen Corlew, the group's media director, and adding voices to the mix won't change that. "'Gimmick' is the word we've been using to refer...
...tell the family they have a thing for each other is that they don't want to hurt Mitch's feelings. The real reason is: they're in a movie, and there wouldn't be one if the characters didn't do implausible things. Hence the creakiest gimmick in all of fiction, the HIBK (Had I But Known) ploy. It worked in Oedipus Rex, but in the intervening 2,500 years the trope has got a bit stale. Here it's applied so that the movie can be 98 mins. instead...
...Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ben Affleck, David Leary, and Car Talk’s Click and Clack have also joined this convivial crowd in previous seasons. Although Cardullo’s has been broadcasting Sox games for eight years, it was only five years ago that this storefront gimmick turned into a tradition. Dennis Coveney plopped a folding chair onto the cobblestones, and soon other members of Red Sox Nation followed suit. Since then, several “regulars” have earned one of Coveney’s highly coveted chairs. “They have to earn their...