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Bowie uses his lyrics as extensions of his arrangement schemes, offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...
...film's botched handling of a supposedly feminist message is only partly redeemed by its spotty ability to convey our awkward attempts to overcome personal isolation. Gundzinger does not love the builder but lives with him because "he gives me space and makes me laugh," and that is infinitely preferable to loneliness. In one of the movie's most subtly haunting scenes, Gundzinger faces her new future mother-in-law alone for the first time. Gundzinger has just thrown up, and is embarrassed. The older woman is embarrassed by Gundzinger's embarrassment. The two, who do not get along...
...escort service was never intended to be a private livery car nor a substitute taxicab. Instead, it was designed to convey students from one point to another when no other safe means of transportation is available. The fact that one has to wait 40 minutes between shuttle bus runs does not mean that the shuttle bus is an unavailable means of transportation and that the bus rider should instead call the escort car. It means that the particular student should be prepared to wait for the next bus, or time his/her departure around the bus schedule...
...there is a significant personality difference between the two men. Reagan's ego seems to get much less entangled with his policies than does Carter's. Despite his ability to convey feeling, Reagan rarely loses his temper or carries a personal grudge. He is not emotional or vindictive. Those qualities could prove valuable in the rough give-and-take of official Washington...
...sexual freedom. On about page 250, we begin to lose track of the number of times Fanny has allowed herself to be raped, humiliated, used, and tortured. Not that our heroine doesn't get turned on once or twice; in fact, one message Jong seems to want to convey is that the once-innocent and always good-intentioned Fanny eventually breathes easily with her sexuality--enough, supposedly, to chronicle the sordid trysts for her daughter, the aforementioned Belinda (not surprisingly, Jong dedicates Fanny to her own daughter). And Jong does hit at some sort of admirable feminine tenacity that allows...