Word: carousels
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...Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, Lucille Ball, Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong and 26 others whirl around and around in an unending cycle. The spectacle is an art exhibition--"The Turn of the Century," a carousel adorned with 20th century pop and historical images--but you could be excused for mistaking it for a typical day's television programming. With more than a dozen biography programs feeding the audience's seemingly bottomless lust for lives, cable has likewise become a vast merry-go-round where the life stories of Roosevelts and Roseannes pop up constantly and with equal prominence...
...Green's guards jumped into passing lanes aggressively, and the lack of a post threat--early foul trouble limited Janowski to just five minutes in the first--forced Harvard into a dangerous carousel of perimeter passes...
...Green's guards jumped into passing lanes aggressively, and the lack of a post threat--early foul trouble limited Janowski to just five minutes in the first--forced Harvard into a dangerous carousel of perimeter passes...
More than any other Cirque show, O incorporates these acts into its expansive design. A quartet of carousel horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest...
...evoking images of the Coliseum and sky as Prodhumme--with a surprisingly sexy voice that moves effortlessly between innocence, vulnerability and purposeful passion--pushes the music to one of the few full climaxes of the album. "My melting snowman" is a short and eerie instrumental piece featuring slow, distorted carousel music, and "never comin' back" conjures up the freedom of dry Wyoming highways as Prodhumme belts about the open road with a slightly affected yet humorous western twang...