Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will best promote her product. "After a while, everyone becomes his job," warns the Wizard, and Betsy has clearly completed the evolution. She is an ice-queen (Shepherd seems incapable of playing anything else), self-possessed for as long as she can sustain her fortress of manila folders and coy sexuality. But when Travis takes her to a 42nd Street moviehouse, she runs--the scent of real life, outside her redcarpeted office, is too much for her to deal with...
...astronomy; Taylor studied biology and Deacon won first-class honors in electronics. Behind the bizarre stagery, in fact, Queen's musicianship is solid. Mercury plays the piano with competence. Although many of his songs suggest raw aggression, a gentler side can be heard in Seaside Rendezvous, a coy confection of muted harmonies and polite French phrases that is slyly reminiscent of potted palms and '20s hotel orchestras. The new album also includes Drummer Taylor's wry valentine to his auto: I'm In Love With...
...like Liv Ullman and a touch like Bergman himself. Between acts his camera wanders around backstage, where Sarastro reads the score to Wagner's Parsifal, the Queen of the Night drags grimly on a cigarette, a court page reads comic books, and the two lovers play checkers in a coy parody of The Seventh Seal...
Adrenaline World. Sykes is almost as coy about Waugh's "straight" life. Evelyn married early-only to have his wife run off with a friend. A few years later he married again, more happily, and eventually fathered three sons and three daughters...
...three sisters look like they have wandered out of an unsuccessful nursery rhyme. Auntie Pasta's striking pallor is accentuated by her puddle-blue coat and Auntie Awful is dourly dressed in pea green and black. Raima Evan's coy voice, which seems to pass through a kazoo, brings out the meddlesome but well-intentioned manner of Auntie Tomato...