The economy may still be sluggish, but it's been a veritable boom time for novels concerning the problems of people of privilege, those particularly American tragedies where folks with money, education and nice teeth invent elaborate ways to mess up their lives.
"Unless It's Kicks" starts with an unfussy guitar riff, although soon Mr. Sheff is describing the touring life in typically elaborate terms: What gives this mess some grace unless it's kicks, man — unless it's fictions, unless it's sweat or it's songs?
Like the perennially exasperated Edgar Kennedy of the Laurel and Hardy shorts, Craven's Bellamy stares in disbelief as his bungling minions mess up his most elaborate plans, his temper eventually erupting in torrents of sarcasm.
There's also hope that this whole CM Punk mess is just an elaborate storyline in which real-life locker room gossip has been woven into the scripted drama.
His hands—an inky mess of tattoos and elaborate gothic rings don't stop moving throughout the tour, drawing attention to every crack den, brothel, or homeless hotspot he refers to.
She could readily create set-pieces - Prussian officers in mess, Berlin drawing-room currents, an elaborate picnic - but often saw the real drama flickering in hidden arbours and shadows.
My method was incredibly elaborate — it took seven steps, if I didn't mess one of them up — and I have since adopted the Yagoda maneuver.
Through the door and down an elaborate metal staircase, we spilled out onto the heaving mess: blokes, bears, lesbians, transsexuals, not-sure-yets and their straight mates.
Through the door and down an elaborate metal staircase, we spilled out onto the heaving mess: blokes, bears, lesbians, transsexuals, not-sure-yets, and their straight mates.
Baker doesn't mess around with his strokes, either; there's nothing elaborate or dramatic about them.
