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...which Rice so adeptly pulled off in the Vampire Chronicles and even managed well enough in The Witching Hour seems overly ambitious here. The globetrotting which takes place in the world of the vampire Lestat here seems part and parcel of Rice's desperate attempt to re-create the aura of mystery and erotic power commanded by her vampires. But witches are a whole different ballgame and Rice takes much too long to resolve the problem at the heart of the novel: Lasher is searching for a new embodiment or reincarnation so that he can reproduce...
...angry over others' cruelty to her. Masina's Gelsomina gazes at the world with wonder, although there can be little wonderful about its realities for her. Fellini offsets her timidity, which practically amounts to a social stupidity, against her purity of spirit. The combination gives her a childlike, saintly aura...
Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...
...potent aura of success that subsequently surrounded her was regarded a vital ingredient in the quest to retool the New Yorker, a necessary precondition for change. Brown's appointment by publisher Si Newhouse was a determined attempt to bring the publication back into the black. Billionaire publishers are not unaffected by precipitous dips in circulation...
...That is to say, you could safely bundle the brood off to Into the West and no harm would come to them. But a grownup could sneak off to it all alone and have an extremely rewarding evening. For stallion and friends are Irish, meaning that an aura of Celtic mysticism surrounds the horse and a rebellious, wandering spirit moves in eight-year-old Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and 12-year-old Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy...