Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults are carefully crafted in Britain; Haig's was an impulsive throwaway. So there is no direct damage, except in embarrassment to Haig the next time he greets Carrington. It may even be mildly reassuring to learn that the unvarnished Haig still exists, since in television interviews lately, Haig has been imitating Ronald Reagan's low-key, ho-ho evasions...
...well as the performers. Actors (23 of em shuffle, awkwardly in huge packs on and off the stage toting Peanuts-style two-dimensional trees for the nature scenes and a dissipated desk and chair, which indicate action indoors. Dialogue drones endlessly, and the only truly witty exchange is a throwaway Samuel Beckett spoof, "Waiting for the Dough" though it's unclear how this two-minute diversion worked its way into the larger plot...
Wrestling is a grueling sport, but the boys from Harvard even seem to enjoy the throwaway matches like Saturday's. Andy McNerney managed to work on his pinning combinations as he ran up a score of 34-3 without notching a fall...
Ulysses Grant in his throwaway lines-in his throwaway life-kept trying to get people to see the colossal sick joke. All you do is take the nicest guy on the block, and knowing he is not good for much else, let him act on the bald fact that war means killing the guy on the other side . . . Then, all this man has to do is keep the fact in mind all the way to Appomattox...
...coda emerges on the seven-inch e.p., containing more experimental material. It has two excellent, straightforward reggae songs recorded in London with reggae musicians, attacking hypocrisies and race riots, and a long, less happy-go-lucky, more personal, powerful version of the album's "Christine," as well as a throwaway song composed in the studio, "Lovers' Walk." There are similar superfluities on the album, like "Ghost of a Chance," but the extended length project accurately reflects Jeffreys' creative energy and vision. Daring to confront and reinterpret his own work, to create music with players of different nationalities and races...