It may be rock's most cunning new band.
Just like in Aesop's fable, the highly cunning New Caledonian crow has enough reasoning ability to drop rocks into tubes of water and raise the level of a floating snack.
As in other works, Long asserted that "every incident in this wolf's life, from his grasshopper hunting to the cunning caribou chase, and from the den in the rocks to the meeting of wolf and children on the storm-swept barrens, is minutely true in fact, and is based squarely upon my own observations and that of my Indians".
To the initial exasperation of his bandmates, who wanted someone to keep time more diligently, he developed one of the most unusual styles in rock and roll, built on lyric asides and cunning contrapuntal remarks that suggest a line of melody travelling through the map of the chord changes.
"I had never seen so much sex, snarl, poetry, evil, restraint, grace, filth, raw power and the very essence of rock and roll," she testified, casting the Prunes as "Lucifer: arch and cunning to U2's Gabriel: angelic and gorgeous.
You wear a hard core, rock 'n' roll leather look to enter the dark days of winter, and those cunning designers will make you want a painterly print or a dramatic ruffle for spring.
As he glides down the bayou with a woodsman's cunning and more attitude than a backyard full of roosters, Logan LaBauve finds himself in situations that make rocks and hard places look like items on a dessert menu.
The Italians' cunning plan?
