Word: mash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connection among the stories is ever made, despite the obvious presence of an Indian protagonist. Perhaps the three novels are a study in contrasts between two different families, cities, and countries. Unfortunately, the delineation never crystallizes. Coupled with the fact that the stories are within themselves are a mish mash of free-standing descriptions,Freedom Song is ultimately a compilation on its way to a literary meltdown...
...trip to the dessert bar, which offered a choice of multicolored pudding. There was a pink (strawberry), brown (chocolate) and bafflingly enough, two orangey puddings (one was purportedly sweet potato, the other melon). With the exception of the chocolate, all the puddings tasted like basically the same sugary mash...
...thefirst track, is a surprisingly insipid start tothe album. Trying to muster resentment, she offersus a long stream-of-consciousness account of lovegone wrong. Words pile on words as the standardchorus is layered with dense sub-vocals thatslowly collapse into indecipherable clamor. Thesong turns out to be a mish-mash of etherealchattiness rather than a compelling introduction...
...Currie is one of the rare third parties in this story; most of Clinton's alleged obstructions, such as the "Titanic"-inspired mash note and the suggested cover stories, rely on Monica's account alone. "Anything substantive took place out of earshot of anyone else -- it's all dependent on that," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, who is also a lawyer. And Starr's relentlessly salacious drags Monica through the mud right along with Clinton. "Starr may have done himself a disservice by presenting the naked Lewinsky," says Kluger. "She becomes a less credible, less stable witness." Of course...
Since his 1962 debut as Boo Radley, the monster and savior of two Alabama children in To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall has given more than their due to some indelible movie creatures. The names Frank Burns (MASH), Tom Hagen (The Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private...