Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, it is necessary to understand his origins as recently described by Trey Parker, one of the show's creators. Now, it may not be immediately obvious why anyone would want to understand a series that features a stool specimen wearing a sailor hat and speaking with the voice of a castrato ventriloquist. But South Park, a cartoon about four profane third-graders, is the latest giant asteroid to slam into American pop culture, and so it requires our attention. Fortunately, it is also very funny, and Parker, 28, and his partner Matt Stone...
...this story where it started: Neve arriving and, upon seeing you, smiling so broadly that it feels for a moment as if you both go way back. She is dressed crazysexycool: a puffy hat, a low-cut leotard top with a cardigan throwover, knickers, black boots. There is a freshly cut apple sweetness about her face and also something simultaneously sad and bright, like sunlight off a raindrop. This amiable radiance is, of course, why she's a star, and you're getting it firsthand now, unfiltered, undiluted. Still, she's got a tricky, winding road ahead. Finding film scripts...
...year-old Italian reenacted a scene from his heyday. Pumped by the cheers of 11,000 fans, Tomba took off his skis and hurled them into the crowd. Then he tossed his poles, gloves, hat and goggles...
...comes Travolta in Primary Colors, the Mike Nichols movie based on Joe Klein's novel about the 1992 campaign, with a portrayal so deeply and exuberantly Clintonian that it reminds you of everything you've ever loved and hated about the man. Blurring fact and fiction is old hat by now, but the hat has never fit quite so snugly. Imagine Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men hitting theaters with Nixon still in office--but this time, it's played partly for laughs...
...both trios.Motian embellishes and decorates the beat ratherthan filling space by pounding out rhythms, so hiseffective contributions can be easily overlooked.His solos are distinctive--they are not dense,roaming waves of sound in the vein of Elvin Jones,nor are they marked by a closing of the hi-hat onevery off-beat as in standard drum technique.Starting and stopping in flurries, Motian's soloinventions are also distinguished by the light,almost tinny sound quality of his drums...