Word: lydia
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...next second he is in-and then out again. Disraeli is dizzying indeed. The confusion has been added to by the show's American editors, who have cut approximately half an hour from the four episodes to fit PBS's absurdly rigid time slot. Love for Lydia, which was also on Masterpiece Theater, took twelve episodes -and threatened to stretch on through infinity. Disraeli takes only four. The viewer feels cheated and wants more, much more. - Gerald Clarke
...beggar with a tin cup. The seemingly amour-proof Tsyganov offers to sweep her off to Paris and is crushed by her cruel rebuke that at 49, he is disgustingly old. Under Cherkoon's touch, however, Nadezhda becomes an emotional tinderbox. Cherkoon has already enjoyed the favors of Lydia (Roxanne Hart), an achingly bored, terribly wealthy beauty who has been visiting her aunt, the town's only bona fide aristocrat. In one electrifying embrace, Nadezhda seems to claim Cherkoon for keeps. Abruptly, he rejects her, and she goes offstage to punctuate her life with a revolver shot...
...going to sit back and let the Third World Center be pushed under the rug through the formation of a committee," Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), one of the campus groups sponsoring the center proposal, said yesterday...
...pure camp, and the full orchestral backing suits Lydia Lunch's voice perfectly. What prevents the whole affair from degenerating into the ridiculous is the presence of Pat Irwin's electric guitar. Irwin seems more of a collaborator than a player throughout, and she executes her sonic attacks with ruthless efficiency. The overall conception is very alien; as the band begins to swing, Irwin launches an atonal, heavily feedbacked solo that cuts right through the soul of the song...
...fact, audacity is the word that best characterizes the entire album. It is what makes Lunch the most interesting of the no wave survivors. James Chance continues to subsume himself into his own ego and prejudices, Mars and DNA run circles around themselves and their past achievements, but Lydia Lunch has reached out to embrace new experiments. Don't let her cold stare and chubby cheeks fool you. Dada...