Word: delilah
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History has not been kind to the Philistines. Exemplified by such figures as the hulking Goliath and the treacherous Delilah, they are depicted in the Bible as thieves and warmongering aliens. The ancient Egyptians branded them pirates and marauders. Since the 17th century, their name has been used as a synonym for uncultured, anti-intellectual boorishness...
...monkeys are the seven Vincent children: Caitlin, Sophie, Delilah, Gus Jr., Sherman, Chicky and Minnie, the youngest. Their father, Augustus Paine Vincent, a banker and yacht-club member, has the low profile of old-line Boston. He is the weak silent type and a heavy drinker. His wife, and mother of the brood, is the former Rose Marie O'Dare, Irish Catholic and a fine choice. One suspects that the Vincent bloodline had thinned since the days of the vigorous Yankee traders and that Rose Marie brought an unaffected vitality to the clan. She makes babies as easily as some...
Next we see the family's progress through the obstacle course of media celebration. Delilah is an overeager guest on The Dating Game, Bill poses in bed for Esquire, and Lance poses in the buff for Screw. It is like watching a Woody Allen parody of Andy Warhol's too familiar conceit that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...
...Beatles, girl groups gave you the genuine article." The Payola Years of rock have recently been limned in such movies as Sparkle and The Idolmaker and in the hit musicals Dreamgirls and Little Shop of Horrors. Now Alan Betrock's Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound (Delilah Books) recaptures some of that music's innocent power-and documents the casual exploitation of these young singers by their managers and record producers...
...distinguished ancestor. Leading Kabuki artists like Tamasaburo, 32, a brilliant onnagata, may achieve the popularity of rock stars. One of the most effective works in the tour repertory is Narukami (The Thunder God), first presented in 1684. A stirring tale somewhat resembling the biblical stories of Judith and Delilah, it recounts the bravery of Princess Kumo-no-Taema (Tamasaburo), who journeys to the mountain redoubt of Priest Narukami (Ebizo) to seduce him and free the god of rainfall, whom Narukami has imprisoned. Tamasaburo, a picture of idealized femininity, and the virile, matinee-idol handsome Ebizo both display the mastery...