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Flamingo Road has a lot going for it: an infernal quadrangle straight out of Gone With the Wind (Lane, Sam, Fielding and Constance playing the roles of Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie) with motives and M.O.s provocatively askew; randy women jackknifing their long bare legs around any man who will come near a canopied bed; meta-trash dialogue like "You're trouble, girl, nothin' but trouble." At the moment, a crushing share of the dramatic burden falls on the strong, hairy shoulders of Mark Harmon. His character, who is both rising-star politician and star-crossed lover...
Though the Which Way films enunciate the sentiments of comradely conservatism ("Handouts are what you get from the Government; a hand up is what you get from a friend"), their values are more than a bit askew, even for a no-holds-barred comedy. The viewer is to find the battle of a snake and a mongoose reprehensible, but applaud the climactic spectacle of two brawling men making hamburger out of each other's bodies. It says something about the American body aesthetic that Eastwood's previous picture, the innocently droll Bronco Billy, failed at the box office...
...housewife. The asymmetric anarchic quality of such compositions also characterizes contemporary New Wave graphics. This aesthetic, which has sprung up alongside of punk music and fashion, is characterized by the juxtaposition of disparate forms, symbols and lettering in designs that often are consciously crooked, random and askew...
...They've played a little trick on their promoters, andtackedanother song to the end of their double album without listing it on the jacket, or telling the guys who wrote the ad copy. That's the keynote for the music on this album: it presents a world gone slightly askew and takes a sort of grim joy in pounding the disturbing discord home...
...fashionable genre pictures of the times. The wandering holy man, the street musician, the Cossack and especially the peasant, in all his scruffy permutations, were persuaded to assume artful poses. One French photographer of the 1880s in Russia was fixated on funny-looking hats, which he set askew on his subjects' heads when it suited his composition. The result often verged on caricature...