Some industry insiders may blanch at his attempt to simplify, or as he would say, "boil down" his message.
The two dozen or so performers are ages 12 to 22, and parents may blanch at the sight of adolescents teetering on a pile of chairs three stories in the air — albeit with a safety harness on — or clambering around on a Wheel of Death.
Truly delicate readers may blanch at the number of times that "Beans" references abdominal distress.
Rap loyalists may blanch at his new directions, but Mr. West has never been solely beholden to rap fans or to rap modes of thought.
Again, those who know Mr. Hughley from a sitcom -- "The Hughleys" in his case -- may blanch at the banal profanity.
Purists may blanch, but as fewer and fewer cars offer manual transmissions, the more redundant the tach seems.
No argument there, although I imagine that some of the string band scene may blanch at Uncle Earl hiring a British hard-rock musician as producer.
Aficionados who can recognize each beat in each Sinatra recording may blanch (Will Friedwald, for instance), but most audiences will feel that the Chairman has been treated with the respect he deserves.
Mr. Harvey, star of "The Steve Harvey Show" on the WB network, swings into a definition of the differences between rap and old-school funk, and fans who know Mr. Hughley from the sitcom "The Hughleys" may blanch at the profanity.
Those used to 21st-century digital sound may blanch at the audio quality, but the whole show is a gripping journey towards what Evans describes in the liner note as "those other high levels - which happen just occasionally.
