Word: chameleon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connected is love--finding love, losing love, making love, and wanting love. Although the album is rhythmically original and lyrically daring, Connected is filled with many songs about a cliched theme, causing it to fall short of its real promise. Lead singer Jacci McGhee's voice is like a chameleon, as she jumps from emotion to emotion in a flash. V. Jeffery Smith and Peter Lord, on instrumentals as well as vocals, create a unique beat, which makes The Family Stand different than many bands, but not that much different...
...incongruities between her persona and the period, however, serve to reinforce the essential awkwardness Catherine Sloper feels in her own environment. The skittish, chameleon-like quality that has kept Leigh from being a star is perfectly suited to Catherine. She almost disappears inside her own scenes until her misery and confusion are quietly compelling and almost uncomfortable to behold...
DIED. BURGESS MEREDITH, 89, chameleon-like actor who performed the highbrow and lowbrow with equal enthusiasm and success; in Malibu, Calif. His Mio in Winterset (1936) simmered with earnest indignation; his Penguin in TV's Batman was gloriously over the top. He played the gentle George in Of Mice and Men, the careworn coach in Rocky and even did a gravelly voice-over for Skippy peanut butter. Meredith defended his quirky choices, saying, "I'm a man moved by the rhythms of his time, so I'll just take amusement at being a paradox...
...hands are extraordinarily sensitive and turn the colors of the rainbow according to the temperature of my surroundings. If it is not particularly cold, my hands are red. As the mercury plunges, my hands pass through stages of blue, purple, and black. The pain that accompanies the chameleon effect is irksome, which is why I prefer having other people scoop my ice cream to serving myself...
...blame them? Over her nearly 15-year career as pop-music chameleon, sometime movie star and cultural provocateur, few have been able to avert their eyes from Madonna for too long. Her new film, Evita, which opens Christmas Day in New York City and Los Angeles and in January around the country, has been trumpeted with a publicity campaign so lavish and long winded that many people probably think the movie has already opened and they've already seen it. Evita is, to be sure, in many ways a landmark: the most ambitious musical Hollywood has turned out in years...