Word: whacks
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...middle of Cry, things are seriously out of whack. The songwriting strategy is to alternate among big love ballads, upbeat rockers and quieter, more revealing personal songs. But when Hill opens up, she shows us almost nothing at all. On This Is Me, she sings, "My heart breaks for the homeless/I worry about my parents ... I am just like everybody else/I try to love Jesus and myself." If This Is Me is really her, then McGraw is one bored cowboy...
...energy. And Europe's core economies may not prove quite the locomotive the new riders had hoped. Existing members are constrained by E.U. rules that curb their powers to lower taxes or run deficits even as growth slumps. And public expectations in the candidate countries are out of whack. "People have in mind the systemic change back in the early 1990s," says Péter Balázs, Hungary's Secretary of State for European Integration. Then, the free market plus foreign investment sparked a revolution, but those huge shifts have been absorbed. "They think this time will be similar...
...against Brown last Wednesday, meaning that he would have to be shelved for most if not all of the series with the Tigers. That—plus a nagging shoulder injury to sophomore starter Marc Hordon—threw Harvard’s postseason pitching plans completely out of whack...
...nine-day mission to the region, Bush has been unable, as an adviser puts it, "to get back to the speech," the elegant Rose Garden statement he made on April 4. In that address Bush for the first time lined up all the carrots and sticks to wheedle and whack both Israelis and Palestinians to the bargaining table. The idea was simple, maybe too simple: if Bush demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdraw from the West Bank and that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat call off the terrorists, the two sides could get down to business. But when neither...
...paean to classic rock fits her career arc perfectly. Since her debut, Crow has deftly projected herself as a world-weary girl who likes a good time. On her previous album, 1998's brooding The Globe Sessions, the balance between sullen and saucy got out of whack. Here Crow tries to set things right by not bumming anybody out. Starting with the exuberant Steve McQueen, she launches into a relentless pursuit of good times and an echo of her first hit, singing, "I want to rock and roll this party/ I still wanna have some fun." When the chorus arrives...