Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three non-instrumental songs, "Falling and Laughing," "Lovesick" and "Blueboy," exhibit a kind of boyish coyness no one has ever redone, or re-sung, or re-scripted, half as well. "Lovesick" is a love song, but "Blueboy" is--I think--a song about someone listening to a love song, except that "he wasn't listening to the words being sung," just to the tune, and the mental images it conjured up. (I've been told that "Blueboy" is a British gay porn mag. I don't care.) These songs don't "rock" or "roll," they bounce--up and down...
There is also a cramped, dark, relentlessly gloomy feeling to the settings, confined to stone courtyards and chambers: sparsely furnished for a king, except for a throne, a swimming pool, and plenty of beds. It's the kind of angst-ridden starkness that might be intended to impute Beckett-like solemnity to the proceedings, but the effect in this case was rather one of being stuck in a prolonged Calvin Klein perfume ad. This may have something to do with how good the actors look, and what they are wearing. Jarman's homosexual lovers have strong jaws and wellcut hair...
...woman on the cover of this special issue of Time does not exist -- except metaphysically. Her beguiling if mysterious visage is the product of a computer process called morphing -- as in metamorphosis, a striking alteration in structure or appearance. When the editors were looking for a way to dramatize the impact of interethnic marriage, which has increased dramatically in the U.S. during the latest wave of immigration, they turned to morphing to create the kind of offspring that might result from seven men and seven women of various ethnic and racial backgrounds...
...word Wasp -- white Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- conjures a thumbnail history such as this, compounded of memories of textbooks and shreds of slander. As thumbnail histories go, it is not inaccurate, except that it leaves out the Wasp's greatest legacy: the American character. Whether we like it or not, all the rest of us in becoming American have become more or less Wasps. Americanization has historically meant Waspification. It is the gift that keeps on giving...
...control opponents live in a strict constructionalist world that was made obsolete in the 19th century. They claim that according to the letter of the Constitution, the federal government has no right to regulate the sale of arms, except across state lines. Following this reactionary constitutional logic, the entire debate on waiting periods and access to handguns is moot...