Word: valiant
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...outsing the acoustic guitar and keyboard arrangements backing him. His voice tends to be too flat, lacking the depth that characterizes peter Gabriel. In fact, on the minute-and-a half a cappella "Wake Up Call," Peck almost falls flat without the backing music; it is a honest and valiant effort, but not strong enough to make anyone want to jump out of bed, musically speaking...
...from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero's fleshy predicament to feel more involved than exasperated? Distant enough to remember that in matters of sex, all positions are ridiculous...
...rifle was an Enfield 30.06, and Beckwith's fingerprint was found on the scope; his white Valiant was seen parked nearby; he later bragged at a Ku Klux Klan meeting, "Killing that nigger gave me no more inner discomfort than our wives endure when they give birth to our children." Yet he has remained free...
Health officials made valiant efforts to play down the threat of infection. "The absolute risk for the general population is extremely low," insisted Dr. Robert Zimmermann, head of the blood bank at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow Clinic. Dr. Elke Gossrau of the German Red Cross put the risk at about 1 in 1 million...
...bride, the lascivious king has chosen Anne's sexy (if dim-witted) sister, the new Queen Morgana Prettiface (Adam Feldman). "What Ho!" declares the valiant Princess Diana, who sports a leather Hamlet-style mini-skirt. "Oh, that ho," she says when she sees Prettiface...