Word: meanderings
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...Vignette" is tastefully executed, but seems to meander and lose a little steam toward the end of its 11-minute span. The excitement picks up again with Haden's bluesy "Bay City," which leads into the centerpiece of the album, "La Pasionaria." The most extended performance on the album at 14 minutes, it also is the most ambitious in its incorporation of diverse musical idioms. Another Haden original, the mellow "Silence," and an appealing version of Ornette Coleman's "The Blessing" pass before Rubalcaba and company leave the audience with an impressive, incendiary rendition of Miles Davis' "Solar...
Perhaps the sluggishness of the book is a result of Morris' style. Quaint and engaging at first, her sentences meander through her paragraphs like a peaceful country road winding its way through the hills of Denmark. Yet, after a hundred pages of strolling through the highways and byways of Europe, the laid-back pace of the prose begins to grate on the nerves. Morris seems almost the quintessential kindly, old British matron and as a result, listening to her drone on is like having an especially long lunch with your grand-mother. She usually has good stories to tell...
...convoluted plot. After the kidnapping, though, the action slows almost to a halt; the rest of the movie moves sluggishly, with brief speedy sections. The aggravation of this halting progress is compounded by the fact that during the lulls, rather than actually develop his characters, Boyle chooses instead to meander around the lifeless world that he has created...
...Americans meander to the polls today, I offer a token declaration on behalf of what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
Rent is also a problematic show to record. Some of its songs meander with the plot, although in live performances the cast is able to make most of them work by means of raw energy, youthful good looks and old-fashioned showmanship. There are plenty that hold up well on record, however, such as One Song Glory, a brave, bold blast that compares with some of the best tunes on Jesus Christ Superstar, the pioneering 1971 rock opera. However, neither Rent nor Noise/Funk is as bold musically as JCS was in its day. Noise/Funk sounds a little stuffy compared with...