Word: veer
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...while Sting's lyrics too often veer toward veiled inaccessible imagery or silly diplomacy ("Believe me when I say to you/ I hope the Russians love their children too"), the old Police-meister can still turn a nice phrase. In We Work the Black Seam, he finally gets the balance right; between simplicity, sincerity, a pressing issue and a catchy hook: "One day in a nuclear age/ They may understand our rage/ They build machines that they can't control/ And bury the waste in a great big hole...
...vowing to appoint Justices who would "interpret the Constitution strictly." Within three years, Nixon had four openings to fill, including that of Chief Justice (Warren stepped down at age 77 in 1969). Pundits proclaimed a "Nixon Court" under Burger, the new Chief Justice, and waited for a veer to the right...
...chugging lightly along--as if the engine of Reed's GPZ motorcycle were building up to high gear--finally leading into the expansive guitar and synthesizer work of Reed and Peter Wood. The lyrics begin as a straightforward statement of Reed's new aims in life, but then suddenly veer off to follow Reed and his GPZ to a roadside diner out in Pennsylvania, where he takes part in the everyday life of the country people, and, for once, truly becomes what he seeks--the existence of an average guy. As a paean to the simple life...
They call the play "Veer A O Sucker," and it sure gave Brown a licking. "You false pull the guard and you get the fullback bustin up there," explained Restic. Don't worry, if you don't understand: the Bruins didn't either. When the guard pulled, the linebackers followed, the Brown sea parted and Ernst, now Harvard's leading rusher, raced off for the promised land...
...attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows his plane to veer from its rigid course and weave through the sky, passing unusually dream-like cloud formations. The scene lacks only the requisite cigarette. It's a solo experience, without doubt, and each pilot displays a not unattractive narcissism. "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?" one asks his wife again and only...