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For 30 years now, audiences hoped he'd serve up wrenching, emotional music--his version of "Mother" from "Plastic Ono Band"--and it just doesn't seem to be in his nature.
It is “a way of wrenching back some wordpower,” and in a way not “a-mazing” (a typical Daly twirl of language to make the reader re-examine words) to our “fore-sisters who/were the Great Hags,” terms used in unconventional ways.
The WSJ says it's very unlikely Starr will bring criminal charges against President Clinton while he's in office, but that he will probably dump the matter into Congress' lap as a potential impeachment case, thus plunging the country into a "wrenching political dilemma" given the president's surging popularity.
They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.
Besides the dialogue between Welsh and Witt, The Thin Red Line 's other organizing story involves a wrenching tug of war between Nolte's ambition-crazed Tall and Capt.