Word: rousingness
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It shouldn't take a small publisher, based in Canada, to bring baseball to American comicbooks, but it has. Fortunately, James Sturm's rousing, brass-band-and-hoopla wonder, "The Golem's Mighty Swing" (Drawn & Quarterly; 108 pgs; $11.95) is more than equal to the task.
In the waiting area of the restaurant is a small boutique of mugs, spices, and savories for tourists or loyal locals. Sylvia's Family Cook Book can be purchased along with her mixes of lemon pepper, cornbread, hot sauce, and muffin mix. A rousing gospel brunch begins on Sundays at...
At the mid-point of the season, the 33-54 Reds have the worst record in the National League; Griffey was neither voted onto the All-Star team nor selected by NL manager Bobby Valentine. His replacement on the Mariners, the aforementioned Cameron, got a rousing standing ovation in Seattle...
Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its...
Yet the songs on the Worst of the Worst can be compelling in their awfulness. Songs like Richard Hackley's rabble-rousing, hackles-raising spiritual God's Backhand ("We're not talking about tennis or Ping-Pong!") or Offwight Radiator's inexplicable alterna-dirge Sent Fishing by Your Neighbor (those...