Word: mannish
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...film. In one sequence Robertson tells a story about an old harmonica player he met with Helm years ago, then Scorsese cuts to Paul Butterfield wailing away on his harmonica. Helm speaks of the great Southern blues men-and presto, we see Muddy Waters (whose rendition of "Mannish Boy" is one of the high points of the film). The idea is a good one, but its execution is a little too smooth, too obvious...
...Mitchell and Neil Diamond, the concert is one high after another. Hawkins sets the pace with his screaming version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love? From there, it's on to Neil Young's Helpless, Paul Butterfield's Mystery Train, Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy and Morrison's downright ecstatic Caravan. The Band's numbers are full of lyric intricacies and haunting musical motifs. When the group joins the Staples to do The Weight on a mysterious sound stage set away from the concert hall, the song becomes a mini-movie...
Bonheur, for instance, who died in 1899 at the age of 77, was one of the most popular animal painters in Europe; with her mannish working dress and Légion d'honneur, she was considered a walking proof that "genius has no sex." Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and Angelica Kauffmann were bright stars in the 18th century, Kauffmann in England for her history paintings, Vigee-Lebrun in France for her sparkling and elegant society portraits, like that of Varvara Ivanovna Narishkine (1800). By her 35th year, Vigee-Lebrun reckoned, she had earned more than a million francs with...
...Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted having been born female. Her style of dress was the antichic of radical intellectuals of the '20s and '30s-drab, flappy and mannish. Her biographer gives no indication that Weil ever had lovers of either sex. Her single vice was cigarettes, and she suffered throughout her life from severe headaches. Red Virgin. Biographer Pétrement tightly knits the facts of Weil's life with the development of her thought. While still a philosophy student, Weil became...
Among lesbians, a butch, dyke or bull dyke is a mannish woman who seeks a femme-a passive, dependent partner. With the rise of feminist consciousness, the butch-femme pairing seems to be fading, though the terms are still in use. Butch women are sometimes called brothers; effeminate male homosexuals call each other sister. An auntie is a derogatory term for an older male homosexual. Abigail is a nickname for a stuffy middle-aged gay. A front marriage is a legal marriage of convenience. Fag and faggot are acceptable terms among gays if no straights are present...