Word: veerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FILMS, NOVELS and poetry start at one place, follow a consistent course to another and hopefully make a point somewhere along the way. Recorded pop music, however, has chronically suffered from a lack of thematic focus--the aural equivalent of short story collections, pop records often veer crazily from love song to drinking song to torch song to instrumental. As often as not, the only factor holding the individual works together--if, indeed, anything does at all--is stylistic, the musical presence of the performer. An overriding theme must, of necessity, go by the boards; the constraints of the medium...
While Sadat rushed ahead with his plans for the conference, his friends struggled to keep up with him and, some thought, to veer him away from a fatal blunder. Crucial to Sadat is the continued support of Saudi Arabia, which indicated last week that it still backs him despite Riyadh's concern over the damage to Arab unity produced by his recent actions. "We did not support the trip to Jerusalem, but we do support Egypt," Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Mansouri told Correspondent Wynn, "and we are very concerned at any action that breaks...
...episodes and traumas often veer toward the neo-Gothic, with social secretaries replacing spinster govenesses, and gay cousins occupying closets that mad old women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
...Laurie Nyro. And the rest are History. Then the breaks started coming. First a guest "Silly Baroque Outtakes" Orgy on WHRB; then, a couple of guest Wit's Ends for the Independent. The road to the Crimson is indeed circuitous. Veer your moped left off Memorial Drive at the right place, though, and you're almost there...
...yelled Bragg as Grubbs gunned his engines in a frantic effort to veer onto the grass and out of the path of the onrushing KLM. As the crew stared in horror, the nose of the KLM lifted sharply?but not high enough...