Word: misbegottens
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...used to be that at this stage of an election year, we were just rubbing the political sleep from our eyes. Now, the misbegotten front-loading of the primary process has decided the nominations before the snow is melted. The Civil War is settled at the first Bull Run. The regular football season ends on October 7, and we sit and wait months for the Super Bowl...
...essential need to spectate will endure into the distant future. We can't talk sports unless we watch sports. And talk we must. Sports blather will remain the lingua franca in bars, elevators and doctors' waiting rooms around the world. In 2025, no matter how far-flung or misbegotten a place he finds himself in, man will always be able to strike up a lively conversation with the opening gambit "Livingston Bramble, Boom-Boom Mancini, 1985. That was a fight...
...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...