And so the listener is confronted with stuff like Blast Doors: guitars playing a riff that sounds like a supremely agitated version of the theme from Knight Rider, hyperactive drumming, bursts of jabbering synthesiser, liberal application of the aforementioned leap into pained falsetto from Higgs.
But a pair of lamb chops made up for it, cut thick like steaks, supremely tender and scented with rosemary.
The title character is nominally a privileged 7-year-old horrified at the prospect of attending a public elementary school, but he's drawn as a boutonniere-wearing dandy and talks like a supremely egotistical talent agent.
Lawrence's best works never varnish raw facts; instead, he presents us with human suffering in what seems like a supremely indifferent world, then invites us to empathize with the victims.
At times, he also feels like a supremely cruel joke that's been unleashed on poor Claire, almost as if Ms. Miniucchi were exacting some kind of payback on her heroine.
This past weekend, Phillips wrote me: I'm afraid the President, who seems like a supremely rational being, is trying to find the most rational policy option on Afghanistan, without thinking about whether it is feasible given political conditions on the ground, as well as who is going to implement it and how.
Like his supremely gifted younger brother, Sam, we will learn more about this nippy seamer who can bat a bit next year, but he will play top flight cricket knowing that he has risen to every challenge put before him so far in his fledgling career.
The best part of this revival is that both designers and the high street appear to have realised that it doesn't have to be a) Victorian-like and b) supremely OTT and girlie.
From Ghostwritten on, Mitchell has looked like a novelist supremely of, and in, our mashed-up, mercurial times.
She has discovered a few cosmetics, like Kiehl's Supremely Gentle Eye Makeup Remover ($15.50), that don't inflame her face.
