Word: swingeing
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...Swing a dead cat and you?ll hit a Republican in Washington who has an opinion about what the White House should do to juice up Bush?s flagging poll numbers. Some say he should go back out into the country and mix with the people. He should get off the stage and wade into the streets, factories and homes. That worked for Governor Bush during the campaign when times got tough, after all, and it just might help reverse the perception that the president cares about corporations more than regular people...
...place by a voice or a note. Above all, she doesn't sound like a child or some jaded hussy given to parading self-denigration as a false form of honesty. In her brown beauty, she is a fully grown woman who has high command of the rhythm called swing, which can easily be defined as the sound of the pursuit of happiness...
Stanley Crouch's latest book is Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel of Blues and Swing...
...dust off your soul and wake you to the joy of life. It's that sense of joy that is at the very heart of Stro's work, and you can see it in every movement, from the classical ballet numbers she choreographed in Contact to the finger-snapping swing that filled the stage in Crazy...
...Professionally hit? I refrain from saying "Single A short-season," though I do think it-which I take to be a pretty good sign. My real sense of humor, not that macabre mindplay I suffered at the ballpark, is returning. The doors to the room swing open and those two nice EMTs come in, bearing a gift. "The game ball," one explains, and for the first time I think: Hey, some kid grabbed the ball that hit my daughter on the head! That's okay. We've got this game ball signed by the Single A short-season Spinners...