Word: coy
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...muddy water and hangs out with other similarly clad colleagues in a boxing ring. Despite all this effort, the video has not proved raunchy enough to earn the ultimate publicity coup: getting banned by MTV. Rather, it has offended the government of Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters in the background written in Thai that refer to the country's sex industry. The Thai distributor for Aguilera's music label has decided...
...vocals, usually demure or arresting, harsh or sweetly harmonized, were frustratingly muffled by technical maladjustments. The women were unfazed: Tucker, coy and roaring in pink polka dots and fishnets; Weiss, vigilant with the beat; Brownstein, lean and robust, expertly brandishing her guitar...
...coy demeanor at her arm-wrestling match hid her true nature as an intense overachiever with hardened priorities. In the months following her spelling victory in 1996, she was invited to appear on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” but had to pass: Middle school finals were the same week and she needed to study...
...Nicole Kidman got headlines a few years ago for shedding her clothes in David Hare's The Blue Room, and Kathleen Turner is doing the same right now as Mrs. Robinson in a lame Broadway adaptation of The Graduate. But these actresses are glimpsed fleetingly, through low light and coy angles. Today it's the men who are letting it all hang...
...convictions. But that's all right with his employee. She has enough affection for pain and humiliation for both of them. It may not be quite so all right with viewers, though. Writer-director Shainberg seems to be aiming for a dark comedy, but mostly his movie is coy without being funny, ugly without being truly transgressive, stupid when it needs to be smart...