Word: thumper
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...that's left is to imagine how the tunnel will become part of everyday Boston life. In traffic reports, we'll hear about the jam on the Expressway, all the way from Neponset to Williams. Nicknames will start--Bob Ryan from the Globe wants to call it "The Thumper...
...sort of thirtysomething meets MTV: fast, frank and relentlessly yuppie. Characterized only by their sound bites, the principals (a cruise director named Susan, a TV sportscaster named Thumper) seem even more superficial and craven than usual, and the scattershot storytelling technique, fun at first, is eventually just annoying...
...Beatles than upscale Archies: gourmet bubble gum. Maybe some of the lyrics took less time to write than they do to sing. Maybe the entire album marks Ringo's retreat to the simple life. But to this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise from your wheelchairs, Beatlemaniacs, and shout, "Yeah, yeah, yeah...
...reject this argument categorically. It was a friend of mine--a true "Thursday Thumper"--who had initially lured me into the aerobics class. I shall call her by her real name Shelly, although I am tempted to call her Judas...
Waits is playing with all kinds of innocence and perversion: one concert scene flashes between an emotional gospel tune and a simpering, streetcorner Bible thumper, also played by Waits; another shifts between Waits singing on stage, and, as Frank, mouthing the same song on the roof of a building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings...