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Brooks, "sick of...poems that cough lightly," said she considers now to be "the time for...stiff or viscous poems." One can find "bigness in a little haiku," she said...
...taunt when Leiber wrote it. Consider the capper to the Peggy Lee I'm a Woman: "I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you." Pop music was supposed to be kid stuff; Leiber and Stoller gave it a stiff drink and made it grow up fast and strong. Baby, that was rock 'n' roll...
...Juliet sticks her shoe in Alex's mouth, prompting him to kiss her ankle, it becomes obvious that they are more than just housemates. The mechanics of their friendship seem believable, but it's harder to accept their lusty rapport. Eccleston and Fox lack chemistry; their sexual interactions are stiff and unnatural...
...could pay after all and even put up $10 million more, but financiers were not totally reassured. They noted that Grupo Sidek still has an additional $100 million or so of debt coming due soon, and are concerned that if it fails to pay, other big companies will also stiff their foreign creditors. Eduardo Cabrera, a Latin American investment strategist for Merrill Lynch in New York, says that Zedillo ``should have stepped in with a bridge loan or something'' to remove all fears of a default. The President did not, and the Mexican stock market dropped about 6% last Wednesday...
...question that bassist Sharpe has strong fingers, but his rhythmically monotonous solos seem to be rather weak in melodic ideas. On the tune "May Fair," drummer Scott soloed a la John Bonham for almost ten minutes, beating the living daylights out of his set in a vain, stiff-armed attempt at rhythmic expression. Tyner himself rarely unleashed runs of the dramatic four-note patterns that have made his sound so instantly recognizable in recent years. The McCoy Tyner group was a big disappointment this time around...