Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With New Sensations, Reed has abandoned his insecurities and turned away from the dark forces of the outside world. Instead, he is content to rest, for the entire album, in his Rooftop Garden. At its best, this attitude gives the album a certain offhand charm and casual sweetness. At its worst, Reed's new-found complacency segues into a timid syrupiness about the world that caters...
...Reed's crude lead guitar work winding around Fernando Saunder's bass run, should prove a breezy reintroduction for this ex-Velvet into the Top-40. "High in the City" pays tribute to urban joys, while nonchalantly accepting accompanying hassles of the city streets. Here, notice Reed's funny, offhand delivery of lines like: "Hey, look they're setting fire to that jeep. There's not much you can keep...
...squabble with the A.B.T. board, Baryshnikov insisted that his presence onstage should not be counted upon for fund raising, so he must take satisfaction in producing a solid hit in which he has not yet appeared. But even if he never dances the role, Baryshnikov's offhand drollery and mildly subversive comic presence animate the part. This Prince is not a romantic sufferer. He does his tricky opening variation with military smartness and preens before his eager court. In the third and strongest act, he leaps around the world in search of Cinderella in spectacular grand...
...Saturday, Mondale also won the greatest number of delegates in Arkansas and Mississippi. Earlier in the week, he scored victories where he had to (Georgia, Alabama) in order to survive and slow Hart's surge a bit-from 150 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., in Hart's offhand metaphor...
Other Saint Laurent signatures show up early. One is the "little black dress," a Chanel revolution in the '20s and '30s, when it symbolized the offhand smartness of the modern workingwoman. Saint Laurent reigns over this much copied genre, because it seems to fit his double-sided vision of women-as ladies and as tramps. He has confected delicate, gauzy little nothings, sculpted bold ones, produced sexy variations and tarted up a few that can only be called sleazoid...