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...trademark breathy vocals, Hutchence sings about naive love games in a lyrical style reminiscent of many early '80s pop bands, including a younger INXS. This return to a simpler outlook on love is most evident on tracks like "Communication": "Light beams from outer space/Drifting to your satellite/Your dish responds...
Well, forget it. Dish comes first. Besides, there's no way that any reasonably tuned-in moviegoer can dismiss the subversive import of the dialogue between Allen, as an author who teaches a college writing course, and Farrow, as his wife, a magazine editor. She asks, "Are you ever attracted to other women?" He replies that his students "don't want an old man." He, who thinks his marriage might be saved by having children, admits, "I'm begging to have a baby that I don't even want." And when he falls for a wily coed (Juliette Lewis...
Even the heavily favored Kennedy had supportersdoing some last-minute politicking on streetcorners with campaign signs, trying to dish upsupport over Yancey, who received little attentionfrom the press during the campaign
...snake-oil vending that has always gone on in American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values...
This was not mere celebrity dish; this was rancid food for thought. The clash raised troubling questions for every nouveau Brady Bunch family, every jerry-built alliance of siblings who are more like classmates and parents who may be only lovers. What is incest? How affectionate can a man be to those in his care? What is a father? How much distance must he put between himself and his unofficial children before he is free to date one of them...