Word: moonlighting
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...tell you what I'm thinking. When I was in school in the 1930s, I wanted to make the hockey team. I went out in the moonlight and practiced hockey. Another boy, he'd shoot at me. Well, I made it, babe, but I was out night after night after night, practicing. It's the same way in business. Only something that you start working on today will pay off in five or ten years...
...Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971). Great lyric flights and glorious gutter ballads, from Moonlight Mile to Brown Sugar. This is bloodthirsty rock 'n' roll from the Mick Jagger-Keith Richard period...
...deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says he'll come after me/ another one'll drop me a line/ one says all o' my agony is in my mind" covers it nicely...
...still hope to moonlight on my research, perhaps between one and five in the morning," Lamar added...
...Sylphides," one of two works performed last weekend by the Boston Ballet, is itself a loving tribute to a style and spirit already of the past when Fokine created his choreography in 1908. He distilled the essence of Romantic ballet--a series of dreamy reveries suffused with moonlight and white-clad sylphs floating to the music of Chopin. We might be witnessing the animation of an 1840s watercolor, so fluent is Fokine in his chosen language...