Bush already has one big legislative achievement under his belt, the tax cut, and he is just coming off his first foreign tour, a trip to Europe that began raggedly but ended fairly smoothly, and was treated as a triumph by the White House.
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While these critics no doubt genuinely hated ragtime on its merits, what they were really voicing was their fear that a new liberating force symbolized by ragtime might actually topple the old genteel social order, that it might change America from a rigidly hierarchical society to a raggedly democratic one.
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A few years ago she started to play her songs in hole-in-the-wall clubs downtown, impressing growing crowds with her intricate piano work, romantic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and a voice that could be girlish and delicate one moment and raggedly saucy the next.
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After they've sold millions of records, received a handful of Grammy nominations and seen their lead singer morph into a raggedly handsome pin-up, it's absurd to even ponder the notion of the Goo Goo Dolls revisiting the sound that, back in the day, made them critical faves but kept them away from commercial success.
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Karina Lombard plays the alluring Marina, owner of a cafe hangout for the circle that includes Dana ( Erin Daniels ), a tennis pro playing it straight in public; Shane ( Katherine Moennig ), channeling Mick Jagger with her raggedly sexy look; and Alice ( Leisha Hailey ), a bisexual magazine writer with a knack for top 10 lists.
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Reflective but never dour, and serious about staying hopeful . " Banning Eyre said on " NPR " " Hector Buitrago's entrancing guitar melodies and Andrea Echeverri's raggedly tuneful vocal flights are so seductive that the language barrier melts away on its own " and " I can't remember when a CD offered so many melodies you just want to curl up with and caress ."
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Heading downtown to work Wednesday, I almost stopped in my tracks between Seventh and Eighth streets so I could hear the punchline of the joke I heard a street person telling his pals : " So a man walks into a restaurant, and he says to the waiter, do you have . . . " The stand-up comedian's audience was raggedly dressed, hunkered around a shopping cart, grabbing a laugh wherever they found it.
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Emily Carter's new book of semi-autobiographical short stories, she describes her heroine, Glory, stumbling along East Houston Street high as a kite on drugs, as a descant of male voices calls after her : " They honked and squealed, barked, drawled, groaned, purred, hissed, whispered and raggedly begged at me as I twitched down the street in a borrowed dress that was as red as the stoplights ."
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Over the centuries a set of signature attributes by which she can be identified has developed : an unguent jar ( sometimes a perfume bottle, a glass carafe or a liturgical vessel ) containing the oils she used to anoint Jesus; long, flowing red hair ( red signifying venality ) either smartly coiffed or hanging raggedly in tresses; elaborate gowns or rags; pearl-like teardrops flowing from an eye; and a crucifix, a skull and a book.
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Steve Legget, commenting in AllMusic, writes that " Uptight Tonight " " . . . rips out the attitude and trash riffs pretty darn well, making it perhaps the ultimate single-disc set of this raggedly endearing ( and enduring ) rock style . " The packaging includes well-researched liner notes written by Alec Palao, which provide helpful biographical information about the artists and their songs, as well as extensive photographs of the bands ."
