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Everything on the menu is spicy, and expertly prepared. Casa's straight-forward fare is based around enchiladas and tostadas (mainly combinations of meat, chicken or cheese rolled in dough, and usually served with beans and rice) and a few seafood dishes...
...forties the definitive version was done by Billy Eckstine, and Chicago bands have done it with varying degrees of obscenity; it's a thank you note from the Allman Brothers. Their version is that Chicago style, thick organ chords from Gregg, and a truly painful vocal. His solo is straight-forward, with full chords from Dickie as support. Leavell's piano is taken directly from any number of Otis Spann sides, powerful, full-bodied, an emphasis on percussive chords. Dickie's guitar playing is steeped in blues; his sense of the idiom was stronger than Duane's. Here his tone...
With his departure to Washington, Harvard has lost its most colorful and free-wheeling figure. Dunlop was no saint, but he had a certain appealing straight-forward way of conducting business. In the middle of propounding some outrageously conservative policy or point of view, accompanied by loud table-poundings, he would disarm his listerners by twisting his rubbery features into an impish grin, leaving them wondering whether he was actually as conservative as all that...
Luckily, exploitative imitation is usually recognized as just that. Class of '44, The God-children -- these current films are the straight-forward sycophants. Catering to its lower than lowest-common-denominator view of the public's mind, the film industry makes imitative films in waves following any big success. The films in each wave sell for a time, then the green subsides. After decades, this pattern has become so well established that most imitative waves of today are not cause for new concern but only minor emblems of the strait jacket bound around American film making...
JANOV'S PICTURE of human psychology appears relatively straight-forward. People are creatures with their species's characteristic needs. "Need" is a "total physiologic state," the physical demand for certain requirements and the mental ramifications of our biological functions. He says...