Word: throwaway
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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...
...Vries' happy wordplay, metaphysical Wiffle Balls, witty oxymorons (Peachum describes himself as a "self-pitying stoic") and perversely amusing ironies (a house burns down because of faulty wiring in a smoke detector). There are also the author's ticklish ways with the jargon of three generations, throwaway lines ("A writer is Like his pencil. He must be worn down to be kept sharp"), and a dandy piece of burlesque when Peachum tries to undress Officer d'Amboise in her patrol car ("Deploying my right hand slowly downward along her waist, I tried to unzip her trousers...
...rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos, and cylinders of gasoline mounted on flatcars--all of this presented with illimitable, understated bitterness and a quality of throwaway grace...
...sexual objections count less than criticisms of Hill's scholarship. She translates the book's title as "Clear the Way," and argues that it is both a war cry and a metaphysical statement of Lakota spiritualism. Among contemporary Sioux, her critics say, hanta yo is simply a throwaway phrase for dismissing an irritating child -equivalent to the English "scram...