Word: jaggedness
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All battles are remarkable for their chaos: at Normandy the deafening noise, sudden explosions, invisible gunfire and jagged beach obstacles turned a carefully orchestrated plan into a thousand extemporaneous fragments. And still, the plan worked. At Gold, Juno and Sword beaches a force drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles...
ZZ Top, the hirsute Texas trio, has always cut a jagged diagonal across the pop landscape. During the egocentric '80s, when Madonna, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van...
But the Lighthawk flight continues north toward what many environmentalists fear will be a new Summitville and a new Superfund disaster. The plane threads through the grand, jagged peaks of the Wind River Range in Wyoming and on to the wild and isolated northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park. Gordon...
/ Ideas come fast to Joshua Redman. On The Deserving Many, a song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a...
The first appearance of a very good writer, especially the sort of writer who breaks off jagged pieces of his own life and holds them up as fiction, is a tense, edgy pleasure for the reader. How fragile is the fine new talent? How broad and solid? How many fragments...