Word: medusa
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...have a somewhat unconventional definition of the term drag racing," said Colangelo, as two male Pudding actors dressed in high heels, wigs and dresses adorned Ford with a Medusa-like snake wig and a gaudy brassiere...
...SCARIEST EYES IN movies. They can radiate pain or anger with the immediacy of a lightning flash and the intensity of a witch's curse. Angela Bassett should be cast as Medusa or Medea, but because she is a movie star, she plays righteous cops and sanctified wives. She ought to be in terrific films; instead she appears in mediocre ones, where she stands out like Callas singing Feelings and shines like her own amazing, reproachful eyes...
...Medusa with a giant cobra rising from her reptilian coiffe...
Annie Lennox follows "Diva," her aptly titled 1992 album of her original music with a recording of 10 old and new songs written by others. "In Divadom," says TIME's Richard Corliss, "an album needs only one great song. Medusa has two." The first, a cover of "No More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple...
Even when covering questionable selections like Paul Simon's creamed-corn lullabye "Something So Right," Lennox is a compelling performer. The voice that made the Eurythmics famous (sorry, Dave) has only improved with age. Medusa makes the listener look forward to what Annie Lennox will produce next...