Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto...
...nightstick), several other shots and some lines of dialogue were removed. (Wanted: a new rating, between R and X, for serious nonporn sex films. How about an S?) Even now, it is one steamy, and perversely compelling, picture, earning laughs halfway between a derisive snort and the bark of astonishment. Within the film's first few minutes, Russell and Screenwriter Barry Sandier have thrown every visual, verbal and sexual excess at the viewer. A played-out stripper dances while men masturbate at peepholes and a deranged preacher (Anthony Perkins) imagines her dead on the floor. The hooker dresses...
...vast projects of South American archaeology in his Spiral Jetty in Utah 63 years later, the list of "borrowings" is as long and as old as modernism itself. After 1850, the cultures of Africa and Oceania, dissolving under the acids of colonialism, released their myriad fragments-masks, figures, totems, bark cloths, tools, weapons, canoes, ceremonial furniture-into the absorptive West. After 1900, very few major painters or sculptors in Europe or America were untouched by the primitive. Different movements had different agenda: the fauves and cubists, for instance, liked African art, whereas the surrealists annexed the Pacific from New Guinea...
...weakness of the script itself, but the play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any profound message hold coda might hold. Despite all the hoopla, Sister Mary's bark is a lot worse than her bite...
...Lady" of 10 Downing Street. And in case there is any mistaking the satire, King Richard sings a brief ditty on the virtues of self-reliance whose 16 lines begin with the letters M-A-R-G-A-R-E-T THATCHER. But if the show has an angry bark, it is also frisky as a puppy. Nicholas and his co-stars (all veterans of the Cats cast) strut engagingly through the handsome sets. Stephen Oliver's score drapes cleverly oratorical orchestrations on his plain songs, and the whole thing moves with the brash dash of an undergraduate jape...