Word: phrasing
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...flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether...
...begin with some numbers: in this year's first presidential debate, held on Oct. 3 in Boston, Texas Gov. George W. Bush used the phrase "fuzzy math'' four times to disparage the arguments of Vice President Al Gore '69. Of these four instances, one concerned an accusation Gore made about the coverage middle-class senior citizens would receive under Bush's Medicare reform plan, and the other three addressed claims that Bush's tax reform plan includes disproprotionately large benefits for the wealthy. In addition, Bush used similar dismissive phrases such as "phony numbers'' three times. Curiously enough, though...
...said, no matter - Jones' plaintive vocals (and the song's telling melody) get the message across. In his never-equaled way, he drifts across the languid honky-tonk beat; almost talking at points, he never fails to surprise with a speeded-up phrase or a well-placed drawn-out note. At the same time, he never makes mush of the lyrics; one of his great assets is that the listener understands every word. Moving to the new label seems to have reinvigorated Jones, who is at his vocal peak on this and the several albums that followed over the next...
Last week George Bush declared that America was in the middle of an "education recession," launching a new line of attack against Al Gore that he's likely to repeat in Tuesday's debate. He used the phrase 13 times in a single speech. But where did it come from? Answer: the most unlikely of places for a candidate who frequently boasts that "we take stands without having to run polls and focus groups to tell us where we stand." As it happens, the phrase education recession was cooked up by Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos and was so thoroughly...
...Middle East is moving beyond the stone stage. An "administration official" quoted by the New York Times uses the phrase "August, 1914." Is this tiny place about to reconfirm the twentieth century's logic of disastrous disproportions, whereby a seemingly miniscule cause (a Serb zealot at Sarajevo; an atom of uranium; an obscure housepainter in Vienna) brings on apocalyptic effects...