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...song "Hexbreaker", the Fleshtones lay down a groove and play it to the hilt with call-and-response vocals, wild sex and harmonica by Spaeth, maniacal bass playing by the gangly Marek Pakulski, and a lot of cheerleading by Zaremba: "We always stay cool. We like it that...
...tried to do something nice for students. Ross is a talented artist whose music spearheaded the crossing of racial barriers in the early 60's, contributing to the spirited Motown sound we all know and love She's a star and knows how to play the role to the hilt. She's glamour, she's glitz, she's a fun, funky, beautiful Black woman with an abundance of style. What more could the Foundation offer to get people to come out of the woodwork and take notice...
...owner and his son with her unusual sexual prowess. But Xica sets her sights on more ambitious conquests; and what she wants, she gets. She manages to capture the mind and body of the new Portuguese governor. As the governor's slave, Xica wields her effervescent sensuality to the hilt, thus ascending to the most prominent social position in the land. Xica's fairy-tale-like climb does not go unnoticed by her fellow slaves or the Portuguese officials in Brazil. And these characters react in stereotypical--and unrelentingly comic--fashion to Xica's rise with their expressions of jealously...
...Englishman can make a lie sound like the truth, while an American will do the opposite; it's all in the vowels. Stylistically the difference between the two countries is the difference between Rex Harrison and Gary Cooper-a difference that is generally played to the hilt by both sides so that they may simultaneously find each other quaint and horrifying, each regarding his counterpart as if he had never seen such a specimen before. Put crudely, one is a nation of shopkeepers and the other a nation of shopping malls; different size, different look, but the same goods...
...audience was dressed to the hilt-formal wear was mandatory for the occasion, the 97th Annual Gridiron dinner thrown by the Washington press corps. But that did not prevent members from poking fun at Honored Guest Nancy Reagan, 60, and her reputation for the name-wear of haute couture. They produced a barbed, post-dinner skit, to the tune of Second Hand Rose, that featured such lines as "Secondhand dress/ Goodbye, you old worn-out mess/ I never wear a frock more than once/ Calvin Klein, Adolfo, Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going...