Word: bout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album closes with Epilogue (Nothing 'bout Me), a swinging, carefree ditty in which the singer takes a parting shot at his would-be analysts. Like a puppeteer peeking out from behind the curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...
...Pennsylvania (14-0 Ivy, 22-4 overall)--Best of the Best III. Then again, Best of the Best II is terrible. Come to think of it, the original Best of the Best is a bout as good as the six-week old Zesty Broccoli Tofu Stir-Fry HDS dishes up every now and then...
Fortunately, this lame film didn't come out of nowhere. It was a remake of jean-Luc Godard's 1959 classic of the French New Wave, "Breathless (A Bout de souffle)," showing at the Brattle on Sunday. Although the original lacks the tunes of Jerry Lee Lewis, it succeeds everywhere the remake fails. The 1959 "Breathless" is film noir with a capital N, dark and deliciously scary...
...anyone ever call him John? When Dizzy Gillespie died last week at age 75, after a bout with pancreatic cancer, he was known the world over by his nickname. He was busted out of the Cab Calloway band in 1941 for excessive clowning, so legend has it; Calloway, no sobersides himself, could not have foreseen the full implications of the Gillespie handle. In any case, Dizzy required elbow room; he was preparing to break a mess of musical rules. Jazz, always loose, was about to be set free...
...political insurrection (Anthony Crivello) and one in for the social insurrection of homosexuality (Brent Carver). This musical must be among the first to feature torture, mutilation and threats of anal rape and is surely the first to portray one character washing another after a bout of diarrhea. Book writer Terrence McNally and nonpareil lyricist Ebb make the points, not always beloved of the Marxist left represented by the revolutionary, that there is no political freedom without sexual freedom and that love outdoes ideology at breeding bravery...