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In the middle of each the tables was a huge picnic basket, in which, under cloths folded over in a pastry-looking manner, were napkins, plates, silverware, and plastic containers filled with corn salad and potato salad, and strolling waiters supplemented these dishes with platters of lamb chops and fried chicken.
Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.
And before taking Fodor's to task for praising Michael Jordan's chops, admit it: You've got to look pretty hard to find a bad steak in Chicago.
The few who find the production enchanting claim, "It is hard to think of another American opera composed with a comparable degree of musical sophistication and sheer virtuoso compositional chops" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe ). Even the negative reviews give grudging respect to the opera, with the New York Times ' Bernard Holland admitting that it "may also be the victim of the inflated expectations surrounding it."
Chops are still used widely in modern China.