Word: handmaiden
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FACETIOUSNESS. Jokiness is the current handmaiden of brutality. Violent death provides the punch line for the two-hour string of gags that is the modern action movie. And when the stars aren't killing off the supporting players, they are cracking wise--lamely. All right, nobody goes to hear an action movie, but the verbal humor in The Lost World didn't have to be so stilted. In Con Air and Batman & Robin the lines have the rhythm of wit but not the content; they are their own rim shots...
...keeps it up, he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. Pleating the 16th century with the 20th, Codrescu is nervously alert for recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority. At the extreme is the countess: "She would ask them to bring her the mirror on the surface of a lake. She would ask them to open their chests and give her their hearts. She would ask them to make gold out of wool." Representing Middle Europe's recent past...
...Elizabeth Bathory, a real life 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Codrescu pleats the 16th and 20th centuries together address his real concerns, the recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority...
...illegitimate class warfare for the Democrats to try to portray the Republican Party as the handmaiden of the financial elite, but not class warfare for the Republicans to tar the Democrats as creatures of a cultural elite? If the Republicans feel free to exploit resentment of the poor, why shouldn't the Democrats feel free to exploit resentment of the rich...
There's pro-consul Marc Anatomy (Thomas I. Parks '96), who travels to Egypt and falls in love with nymphomaniacal Queen Neferenuff (Michael A. Stone '95). There's Nefferenuff's court: tough Leda Uvdapak (Evan M. Sandman '96), pothead handmaiden Isis Melting (Harris Hartman '95), soothsayer Horace Cope (Mark H. Baskin '95), architect Ramses Pointakross (Mark R. Fish...