Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuniyoshi back to life by painting over it. Entirely. And in a style that someone thought was Kuniyoshi's yet was really more like what you might see on the homemade backdrop of a high school production of Oklahoma! But the handsomely repainted version by Yohannes Aynalem will delight no more than half the Music Hall's audience. It decorates the ladies' powder room on the mezzanine...
RAPPY BIRTHDAY Hip-hop is celebrating its 20th anniversary (Sugar Hill Gang's album Rapper's Delight was released this month in 1979). Now that hip-hop has been around for two decades, a generation gap has developed between old-school and new-school rap. How can you tell them apart? Answer: Product placement...
...Brothers roared into the town ready and willing to christen the new Avalon. And rock they did, oh yes. The show started off fast and furious with Surrender's "Hey Boy Hey Girl" and "Music: Response." This segued directly into the megasmash "Block Rockin' Beats," much to the delight of the crowd. A movie screen behind the duo featured manic black and white montages of pictures and words flashed in tune to the beat of the music, and only added to the epileptic, frenetic pace...
...into his mind in a blizzard of rose petals, Angela reignites his sex drive, and soon he's claiming to be a new man: weightlifting, quitting work, bitching out his "joyless" wife for her materialism, and getting the 1970 Pontiac Firebird he always wanted. Because Spacey is such a delight to watch, digging into the material with wit, joy, and not a little smugness, it's easy to miss how cliched Lester's rebellion is. But his wicked renovations are little more than the contents of a stodgy suburban milestone, the mid-life crisis. Lester's voice-overs insist that...
...Beatles to stroll through, and designer Heinz Edelmann dreamed up creatures whose beguiling oddness suggests a collision of Dali and Dr. Seuss. Seen now, in a long-overdue video release, the film registers as an obvious inspiration for Sesame Street, Monty Python and MTV, and is a delight on its own. Thirty-one years on, nothing in feature animation has matched its endless, exhausting inventiveness...