Word: shtick
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...Against the Day weighs just 3 oz. less than my toaster. But my toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of lyric melancholy blown in by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, its ecstatic perorations from Jack Kerouac. And my toaster will never lay before me a vision of a world in which technology is stripping away all the ancient, vital magic while shepherding mankind to the brink of destruction. On the other hand, my toaster makes toast, and nothing quite...
...garnered on their own terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage of raw blues and Southern rock. Young men in t-shirts playing no-shtick rock in 2006, the Black Keys attract a wide variety of fans, from young indie-rock fans to 50-year-olds eager to see classic rockers that aren’t sagging pitifully in a way that strikes too close to home. The crowd at the Avalon came as no surprise, then...
...only explanation available for this current wave of hazy reminiscence is that few people really know what this whole hardcore shtick is about. The closest to an explanation that we’ll get is incoherent, self-important grandstanding that insists that if you weren’t there, you can’t possibly understand the scene...
...musicianship. All of the performers were clothed entirely in black; the stage was lit minimally to create a focused environment. Bernstein’s three children took the stage to offer some words about their father and the music in the show. Unfortunately, the trio often resorted to campy shtick and poorly written jokes to try to loosen up the crowd, instead of giving a real impression of what it was like to be Bernstein’s child. By the time the three were listing off the projects they had each undertaken to continue their father?...
...Since January 2006, UHS been sending out personalized birthday cards to Harvard students when they turn twenty-one. The cards come with a list of “21 things to do at Harvard before you graduate” and a resource card with phone numbers and the familiar shtick about how you can avoid getting in trouble for drinking if you get so wasted that you almost die. Even better, there’s a promotion for a free appetizer at Daedalus for those celebrating the big event. “It’s one of the spots...