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Help comes to those who help themselves. Wandering Spirit takes a couple of tunes to fully kick in, but by the third song, Out of Focus, you know Jagger has done himself proud. Not outdone himself exactly: although Wandering Spirit has all the shiftless heft of a prime Stones album, there are few trails blazed here. This is a record of reconsolidations and reconsiderations -- Sticky Fingers with a manicure. It sounds tough, ornery and smoothly unsprung, barbed on top and tenderhearted at the quick...
Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet...
...white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is a black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too -- for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest...
...affable here and pay some sort of tribute to the world of his father Bill, a jazzman who wrote the film's score. But despite firsthand knowledge, his story of how the career of trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is undone by pride, womanizing and unwise affection for a shiftless manager (played by Lee) is conventionally romantic, and so is his realization of its 'round-midnight atmosphere...
...open up the newspaper, and you can read the comic strip "Snuffy Smith," which features a dirty, shiftless mountaineer and his sons "Tater" and "Jughaid...