The group’s peek-a-boo playfulness and heart-on-sleeve swingingness is a joy. So, too, are Galloway’s wonderful Hodges-esque soprano, Jones’ peppery Petersonian pianistics, and […]
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Petersonian
//ˌpiːtəˈsəʊ.ni.ən//
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Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian attack is the antithesis of Lewis’s, but he acquitted himself with panache, interpolating a neat Erroll Garner passage into “La Cantatrice.”
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(See Guardian, 1/4/10, for Dean Baker's debunking of the piece's Petersonian economics.)
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What about the debt load we’re supposedly imposing on future generations? This is another transparently Petersonian feat of sleight of hand, based on the assertion that while it’s we who incur the debt, it’s our children who will have to pay if off.
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