Word: damsels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year the Library of Congress will have received the 403rd book in a unique collection. Some of the volumes are composed of bawdy limericks: "There is something about satyriasis/ That arouses psychiatrists' biases,/ But we're both very pleased/ We're in this way diseased/ As the damsel who's waiting to try us is." Others are concerned with nuclear physics and organic chemistry: "It is the electron that is mobile and the proton that is relatively stationary . . . Benjamin Franklin had a fifty-fifty chance of guessing right, and he muffed it. Too bad." Some are science fiction -- excursions...
...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...
Indeed, the Lord Chancellor (Peter Hopkinson), not realizing that his wife Iolanthe is still alive, wants to marry the delectable damsel himself. However, despite his formidable legal talent, he has been unable to find a loophole to allow him to marry his own dependent. Hopkinson enunciates this point with great aplomb, in a patter song about law and nightshirt-clad in a lament about love unrequited. Palsied by precedent, the lovelorn Chancellor agrees to permit any peer to marry Phyllis...
Most of the humor stems from the way Almodovar plays with our notions about love and relationships. He takes special delight in destroying the easy, escapist nature of most melodrama. He even overturns the convention of the damsel in distress. Maura, as the transsexual actress, is sexy and provocative--Almodovar makes the audience lust after her and want to protect her. At the same time, we are constantly reminded that she was once...
...work of grooming the "elephant" for its last incarnation drew to an end. Masons were finishing the limestone slabs on its wide steps up from the Quai Anatole France. On the parapet, a crane solicitously set down an allegorical bronze of Oceania by some 19th century pompier -- a colonial damsel with thick lips, melon breasts and a Tahitian war club, flanked by a kangaroo...