Word: missteps
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...Pistols and the funkiness of good hip-hop; the album's most ambitious track, Climbatize, has an orchestral span but maintains a rock immediacy. While only a few other tracks on the album (Breathe and Mindfields) stand out, the CD is consistently dynamic. The only real misstep is the first track, the punchy but unfortunately titled Smack My Bitch Up. Howlett says the title isn't literal; let's hope this isn't a trend, given the success of singer Meredith Brooks' song Bitch...
...goes. The best and most vivid part of the book is its 75-page-long beginning, which sets up an ultimately flaccid, indistinct narrative. Simpson can be a strong, sinewy writer, and it may be that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing...
English is still recovering from the mad dash to finish the show. "There was not an iota of room for a mistake, a misstep, for losing a day or even half a day," she says. After all the pressure, she had a "momentary freak-out" half an hour before the first taping. "I was pacing around in my office and expressing tremendous anxiety. It all just came out. I was exhausted." The stars, too, sound relieved that the ordeal is over. "From the beginning, we poured our heart and soul into this," says Steenburgen. "Diane's biographical work...
...seems to me that the present instability in Israel has much more to do with the Palestinians' capitalizing on an opportunity to undermine the present Israeli government than with any serious or forseeable misstep on the part of the government itself. The Palestinians are discontent because Israel under Netanyahu is now, for the first time in the history of the peace process, insisting that they honor the agreements they have made--something that they are are clearly unwilling to do--and so, in order to divert attention from this in the eyes of the world media, they are shamelessly exploiting...
Hagedorn's first novel, Dogeaters, was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. The Gangster of Love should firmly establish her reputation as a writer of considerable talent. The book's only misstep is in its portrayal of Sly, a black member of the band the Gangster of Love, and the only significant black character in the entire book. Sly is the group's drummer, his last name is Washington, and he lusts after white women, abuses drugs and carries a gun--in other words he's a pistol-toting, coke-snorting caricature...