Word: hamming
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...with melody—but not powerful, ethereal, or even trippy melodies, as in earlier trance before the whole genre went to corporate hell. Rather, these are the sort of cumbersome, echo-laden melodies that typify modern film scores. In fact, the whooshing sound effects, smiley-face synths and ham-fisted guitars generate a condescending muck so leaden that they even render the album’s joyless and deflated grooves a pleasant distraction—no small achievement...
...lawyer. As unionists watch the Catholic population grow - threatening to erase their majority - it's dawned on some of them that the best way to fend off a united Ireland is to convince Catholics they are better off being governed in Belfast. The problem is, those efforts are often ham-fisted. "I think unionism hasn't adapted because it knows what it's against better than what it's for," said Susan McKay, author of Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People. Adams says the unionists are wrong about the spying, and wrong about the intentions of the I.R.A. Looking a little...
During the summer, she introduced a tapas menu—considerably expanding the food options available. Previously, hungry patrons had a choice of only one ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, the media noche...
Raised by a bookkeeper mother and tire-salesman father in Brockton, Mass., Feinberg was the family ham. He went to the University of Massachusetts with thoughts of becoming an actor until he considered the merits of a weekly paycheck and enrolled at New York University Law School. After clerking for New York Court of Appeals Judge Stanley Fuld in 1970, Feinberg landed a job in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, and then took a job with a big firm. Feinberg was on his way to becoming "just another Washington lawyer," as he puts it, until a bit of acting...
...opportunities for cross-promotion are plentiful. "We're doing a promotion of foods from France's Languedoc region, so I plan to put some of the cheeses on the menu in the Bar Fromage, offer a selection of charcuterie in the Tapas Bar and showcase the regional ham in Harrods Famous Deli," says Estafanous...