Word: misbegotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just not in any more of those City Slickers movies"). Heeding our quality-of-life needs, Crystal last week consented to the gig. The Zanucks, producing the show for the first time, have pledged to trim the numbingly protracted broadcast. High on their list of priorities: nixing the perennially misbegotten dance routines. Crystal, yes; dance numbers, no. They don't call Hollywood the dream factory for nothing...
...writes about so well could tell him a dozen before a dropped dime hit the floor. But no bluesman, and few entertainers of any kind, has managed to achieve the sheer dimension of Presley's story. Just as Elvis' girth fascinated fans and the press during his last, misbegotten years, so too it is the outsize scale of Presley's life that makes the story irresistible. Or, at least, unavoidable. The King, dying on the shag-carpeted bathroom floor of Graceland, his gold pajama bottoms around his ankles, his face in a puddle of vomit, was so overindulged and tuned...
...influences more clearly than ever before. But while on disk one's "Santa Ana" Springsteen did a passable Dylan impersonation, here the listener is confronted with the ugly truth about the Springsteen of the early '80s: the strained, country-infused rocker "Take 'Em as They Come" sounds like the misbegotten lovechild of Journey and the Eagles, and would have been better unrescued from Columbia's archives. Fortunately, Springsteen makes up for his mistakes with "Johnny Bye-Bye," a tiny gem of a song co-written with Chuck Berry and reminiscent of the smooth, clean hooks of "Darlington Country" and "Working...
...totally agree with Krauthammer. I'm not sure a capital crime can be charged for creating headless humans, but withholding any kind of funding should help. The argument that cloning humans for their organs might save lives is spurious, since any respect for life seems completely absent from this misbegotten enterprise. Simply because we have the technology to do something does not automatically lead to the conclusion that it should be done. FRANCES STANDAERT Eindhoven, the Netherlands...
...pale and sad because Gus McCrae, one of his heroes, was dead, and the other, Woodrow Call, was old. Then in 1995 McMurtry reached back with a thunderation called Dead Man's Walk to pick up his heroes as daft and randy 19-year-old Rangers on a misbegotten invasion of Mexican territory...