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...Casanova with a strategically placed cowboy hat, and a black running back who's only purpose, it seems, is to fulfill a hopelessly contrived racism subplot. Throw in a dash of T & A, a pinch of pecs, the trampy, whipped cream bikini-wearing blond cheerleader and bring to a simmer in a cauldron of frothy beer...
...behest, brings to Charlie boils down to this: get acquainted with the Cannon, talk over your shared experiences as Georgia Tech football stars, and then appear at a press conference to say that Fareek is a fine young man, charged with no crime, and that everybody should just simmer down...
Take the rebel romanticism of Jodeci and the pleading sincerity of Boyz II Men, and add a dash of the martial-arts mythologizing of the Wu-Tang Clan. Let simmer, and you'd have something approximating the R.-and-B. vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
Adapt your recipes. Simmer curried vegetables in pineapple juice instead of high-fat coconut milk. Or add steamed broccoli, asparagus or green beans to your regular pasta dish. The point is to find combinations that fit your palate and your schedule. Bon appetit...
...narrator grows older and more pieces of the familial puzzle fall into place, the novel starts to slowly simmer. The vignettes, always sharp and memorable even when their point is nor readily apparent, become increasingly lucid as the mystery unravels. Cavalcades of transient images fill three or four pages at a time and then vanish, but their aftereffects are less ephemeral. The constant aggregation of detail that comes with passing years explains exactly the boy's gradual understanding of his tortured familial history...