Word: mermaids
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Odysseus's fascination with mermaids is understandable. After all, the commercial successes of "Splash" and "The Little Mermaid" show that we, as a society, have a certain fascination for beautiful women with scaly fins for legs. And while Daryl Hannah is a relatively new phenomenon, our infatuation with mermaids...
Over 200 years ago, Japanese fishermen identified this Western weakness for mermaids. An oft-repeated folk tale told of a fisherman who caught a mermaid in his net. She spoke to him, but lived for only an hour. The story made for more than just good listening; industrious Japanese merchants began sewing the heads and torsos of monkeys to the tails and fins of fish, and selling their "mermaids" to gullible Westerners...
Want pure speed? Try Young America. Their boat cuts through the water with a mermaid painted on its hull, but puts up a protest flag every time Dennis Connor breathes wrong, it seems...
...ticket. It was confected by Broadway's top talent, including set designer Tony Walton, costume designer William Ivey Long, choreographer Susan Stroman and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Some are working at half speed. Menken's melodies are less inventive than his scores for the Disney cartoons The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. He gets a B+ for hummable ballads and ho-humbuggable comic turns. Stroman's jazziest ideas are reprises of her dancing-on-furniture number from Crazy for You. Ahrens' lyrics are wan, snapless. It takes a while for the 90-min. show to become more than...
...Toulouse-Lautrec's works. In some places, the brushwork is feathery like Renoir's; in other places, it is more deliberate and thick like Van Gogh's. There are three pairs of women twirling about one another, their shapes congealing and dissolving. The trails of their dresses look like mermaid's tails, giving their bodies an organic quality as if they originated in the ground. Only one woman's face is discernible and her expression is decidedly vampish, although she is clad in white and set in nature. It is as if Picasso took a prostitute and placed...