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...song "Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: Hardly Maniacal | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...song "Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: New Music | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...generous foreman Slim; their antagonism symbolizes the power differences between the haves and have-nots. Sherilyn Fenn's performance as Curly's wife subtly allowing her more sympathy and greater development as the sole woman in the story. Here, Sinise modernizes the original, transforming the role of the wife Jezebel into a modern-day victim of circumstance...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, | Title: George & Lennie on the Big Screen | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...differences between the haves and have-nots. Sherilyn Fenn's performance as Curly's wife subtly alters the book's version of the character, allowing her more sympathy and greater development as the sole woman in the story. Here, Sinise modernizes the original, transforming the role of the wife Jezebel into a modern-day victim of circumstance...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, | Title: New Movies | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

Judaism, Christianity and Muhammadanism are male dominant, and Robbins seems to feel -- though this and much else are not clear -- that worship of the goddess Astarte in early times was gentler. His novel's heroine is an Astarte- Venus-Jezebel figure, a young artist named Ellen Cherry. Her husband Boomer, a lame, redneck welder, appears to represent the lame god Vulcan in this strange jumble of myths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faded Jeans SKINNY LEGS AND ALL by Tom Robbins | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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