The band's recent fourth album, "Divine Providence" (Partisan), was a nod to its Rhode Island origins as well as a ramshackle collection of clever, blue-collar rock odes.
That record's guitar-smashing ethos is also akin to Deer Tick's original material; its fourth album, "Divine Providence" (Partisan) from 2011, a ramshackle collection of clever, blue-collar rock odes, was a nod to its Rhode Island origins.
His eyes, Nabokov said, were "like darts, sharp and clever, limpidly blue and infinitely agile".
Monday's opening-night performance was leavened by astutely funny songs about plastic surgery ("The Lift" written with Michele Brourman) a clever pop blues takeoff on Shakespeare ("Ariel's Lament," written with Mr. Silberman) and a sharp but good-humored attack on Martha Stewart (again written with Mr. Silberman), done in a mock operetta style.
Featuring a bruised women in a white and gold dress, the caption read: "Why is it so hard to see black and blue?" Clever PR stunts like this are rife within the industry – there's also the Snickers box sent to Jeremy Clarkson with the slogan, "you're not you when you're hungry", and ASL's spine-tingling ice bucket challenge.
Clever companies like Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic began competing with traditionally-NASA-funded programs run by corporations like the Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Thiokol, and Aerojet.
In Ms. Bley's clever and stirring piece "Blue Anthem," full of half-hidden quotations (including one from "La Marseillaise"), Chris Cheek, on tenor saxophone, played an explanatory, logical solo, perfectly following the lines of the song's harmony.
It would not show that Deep Blue was cleverer than any human alive.
"My eldest brother (golden boy/head boy/witty, bright, clever, beautiful blond and blue-eyed boy) was at a boarding prep school from the age of six to 13.
Meanwhile, at Google Ventures, he led the firm's investment in a number of portfolio companies, including Medium, Nextdoor, Blue Bottle Coffee, Clever, High Fidelity, and FitStar.
