Carthy is full of such bits of information, and well-versed in the tales behind her album's songs.
And yet, despite such bits of good fortune, New York transportation policy remains in large part mired in the four-lane-highway era.
But it does provide such bits of knowledge as the "well-known fact" (not well-known to me) "that vampires multiply geometrically.
"Citizen Kane" is made up of an astonishing number of such bits of technique, and of sequences built to make their points and get their laughs and hit climax just before a fast cut takes us to the next.
What if his credit-card records show purchases of gadgets such as timing devices?If the authorities can and do collect such bits of data, piecing them together offers the tantalising prospect of foiling terrorist conspiracies.
Such bits of information were occasionally provided, but usually in oblique phrases that would test the skills of a cryptographer, lest the speaker stand accused of breaking his pledge to uphold the committee's rule of secrecy.
The "Jersey Shore" provenance is immediately evident not only in the landscape and in such bits of conversational genius but also in the portrayals of excessive consumption both material and liquid; in the hair volume and self-aggrandizement; and in the use, both implied and literal, of the term "goombah".
Costello remembers hanging around his father's band during their dance-hall gigs—"I'd sit up in the balcony with a bottle of pop and some crisps"—and learning such bits of pro wisdom as "Competition dancers don't like singers, because they pull the beat around".
Costello remembers hanging around his father's band during their dance-hall gigs — "I'd sit up in the balcony with a bottle of pop and some crisps" — and learning such bits of pro wisdom as "Competition dancers don't like singers, because they pull the beat around".
At Time Inc., he became famous for his writing, his drinking, his good and bad temper, and for such bits of heroic foolishness as listening to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in his office at peak volume, with his ear pressed against the phonograph's speaker.
