Word: dionysians
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...become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat frame restores faith in traditional hand-drawn...
...movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough. The charged orgy of crunchy metal riffs, mutated Disney-like anthems and psychedelic vocals propelled the album to the top of America's college charts and prompted an 80-city tour of the U.S. and Europe as well as appearances at England...
...Division were the musical vinculum that bridged the Dionysian abandon of The Doors with the haunting self-loathing of Nirvana—Curtis was well-known for epileptic fits on stage. After Curtis’ death, the remaining members of Joy Division re-united as New Order...
...didn’t take too long to figure out why there were no cell-phone-toting socialites or long-legged beauties were rubbing elbows at the well-decorated bar—Diva had yet to acquire an alcohol license; she was unable to indulge her patrons with Dionysian pleasures. The glance down the drink menu was real cause for laughs. Diva tried hard to compensate for her lack of alcoholic delights by offering various alternative drinks. There was a comprehensive selection of beers and wines –both red and white – yet they all bizarrely...
...necessary to the style of the variation. However, Perahia has obviously studied the score with great attention to detail, as his treatment of inner voices and his sense of direction in the fundamental bass clearly show. If you don't want to go with the extremes of a dionysian Gould (1955) or a puritan Rosalyn Tureck (1999), this is the recording to get. A- -Anthony Cheung