Word: swingingly
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...middles hit with impunity especially in transition during the first game," Micomonaco said. "This opened up the outsides to swing, especially Brian who had a stellar game all around...
...conservative allies, he is St. John the Divine; to opponents, all the talk of his integrity and personal grace masks a record from deep right field. But Ashcroft is also more complicated than the cartoons suggest. If he is so polarizing, how was he elected five times in a swing state? Is he the libertarian who fought alongside liberals to keep the government from prying into encrypted computer files or the bedroom policeman who opposed an ambassadorial candidate on the grounds that he was openly gay? Personally abstemious, he banned alcohol from the Governor's mansion during his eight years...
...tension pants at this point, so he chooses to break it. "Maggie," he deadpans, "I think you need to cry." She grimaces in mock frustration. Zhang tells the crew to let the blinds swing. "Action." The blinds sway and raise. Seconds slide by on the monitor ... 23, 24, 25 ... but Zhang doesn't call a halt. Finally, everyone understands what the fuss is all about. The scene on the monitor is vintage Zhang, slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call. When he cries "cut!" the crew responds with gasps, sighs and smiles, a collective glow of postcreative consummation...
...hits - From "Set them Free" to his latest single "After the Rain." He was recently nominated for a Grammy for his rendition of Brazilian songwriter Ivan Lins' "She Walks This Earth." You can hear the influence of Rio in some of Sting's music - the cool samba swing, the sometimes unusual time signatures, the tropical warmth. Here, on stage at Rock in Rio, it was all coming...
...right as we land, right after the plane's crew thanks everyone for flying with them, guess what song comes on the over airplane's speakers? A Muzak version of "Desafinado." The guts of the song - the swing, the soul, the samba, the bossa-novaness of it - have all be ripped out and replaced by loaves of white bread. It is an almost perfect ending. A trip to Brazil to see how artists there are improving on the music of the world ends with a return to the outside world that ends with a display of how foreigners are screwing...