Word: maids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ground, his best and brashest record since the 1973 Band on the Run. His tendency toward sentimentality is held in check by boisterous guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...
...talked about. Kenneth Branagh's direction shows none of the care he lavished on his Henry V and little of the rowdy dazzle of Dead Again. He also misuses some wonderful actors, including his wife, Emma Thompson; she must put her radiance on hold to play a prematurely old maid who wants Peter to "fill me with your babies." Though the plot is a rehash of The Big Chill, you may ultimately begin wishing Peter's Friends were instead a remake of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. Which one of these egregious twits, you ask hopefully, will...
...charts--and for good reason. Soul Asylum's innovative sound, slightly reminiscent of the Hoodoo Gurus, is complemented by passionate vocals and an unmistakable pop sensibility on this new Columbia release. Grave Dancers Union has its share of muscle but also dabbles in daintiness. (The last song, "The Sun Maid," even has strings.) This record--particularly its standouts "Black Gold," "Runaway Train," and "Without a Trace"--simply happens...
...Rake's Progress at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, proves to be an ideal directorial choice. Especially noteworthy is Trina's erotic soliloquy as she lies in bed showered with her gold pieces, a latter-day Danae. And surely the opening scene of Act II, in which the maid Maria (mezzo Emily Golden) hymns the joy of wealth while experiencing the joy of sex up against a fence, is an operatic first...
...Wade, "choice" took on the moral urgency that in another generation had been reserved for Vietnam. And then came "Hill-Thomas." The visual that lingers shows 14 white men confronting a species of human being that they would normally encounter only in the form of a hotel maid. Little clicks of raised consciousness could be heard throughout the land as women plotted to integrate the Senate Judiciary Committee...