Word: genteelisms
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Appropriately enough, all of Wishman's films are for "adults only." They offer a most unusual perspective on the world. As film reviewer Jim Morton said in Incredibly Strange Films, '"Double Agent 73 makes [John Waters'] 'Pink Flamingos' look almost genteel." If you've ever seen any of Waters' films, you'll know just how extreme this is. While Wishman doesn't utilize "Pink Flamingos" beastiality plot (with chickens, by the way), she is obviously an influence to Waters...
Martina Navratilova brought her surgically repaired knees, prescription eyeglasses and fragile psyche this year to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for a sentimental valedictory on tennis' most hallowed turf. No expectations. Just an opportunity to bask one more time in the genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick...
...touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action verb, pithily expressing what the man did to music. He drove it into the ground, he impaled it on a drumstick, he laced it with aural rotgut, he deleted it from all genteel associations. He spiked...
...state of Virginia honors its traditions faithfully, preferring, in its genteel political combat, mediocrity over notoriety. But this year's Senate race, starring the wounded Democratic incumbent, Charles Robb, and his probable Republican challenger, Oliver North, of Iran-contra fame, competes with the soaps for sensationalism. Tales of sexual adventures and charges of mendacity were already staples when the subject of mental instability popped up last week. "This is the most bizarre race in the state's history," says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, an expert in ugly campaigns. "To have two scandal-drenched candidates is a breakdown...
...Fogg Art Museum makes a radical break with its genteel reputation in its latest feature exhibit, "Power, Pleasure and Pain: Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body." Even though the warning sign at its entrance cautions that the exhibit contains material "Which may not be appropriate for everyone," the unsuspecting visitor may not be prepared for this diverse array of agressive feminist expression, which highlights images of female genetalia, lesbian love and even a graphic photograph of a recently performed mastecomy...