After his speech, there is a heated debate among the hard-bitten hacks about whether he wrote it himself.
With "Scene of the Crime," she returned to Muscle Shoals to record with longtime Southern soul sidemen, alongside the Drive-By Truckers, for an album of sinewy, hard-bitten songs about choices, regrets and survival.
Their third album, Hell Hath No Fury, was released last year to huge acclaim, both for its adventurous production and its hard-bitten lyrics about the life of the jobbing drug dealer.
'The Shipping News' E. Annie Proulx's quirky, hard-bitten novel about a beaten-down, ugly newspaperman (Kevin Spacey) who returns to his ancestral home in Newfoundland and uncovers many family secrets, has been declawed by the director Lasse Hallstrom and turned into a mildly uplifting odyssey.
I've forgotten everything about my journey except getting bitten by Wilson and by bed bugs in Algeciras.
I mean, talk about lowering your standards and getting bitten in the ass by a midget on a speed date after you tell him you love him.
If you are worried about getting bitten but you want a black widow, see if you can find a male.
If you're especially concerned about getting bitten, wear gloves and a head covering so that no skin is left exposed.
But at the same time he played up his boyishness for comic or pathetic effect: at age twenty-three, he was still joking about his "particular baby bulbousness... like an Aryan Harpo bitten by wasps".
They were all bitten to death.
