Word: neon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...records, but he suddenly finds himself wanting this woman, so badly that he can't even keep anything in his stomach. It's obvious that Chambers and Cora are on some cutting edge that Papadakis will never know Papadakis loves America. He goes out to get a twenty-foot neon sign which shows an American flag shaking hands with a Greek flag. Chambers is nowhere near that state of mind. While Papadakis is gone. Chambers and Cora go after each other like demons. Cora begs Chambers to bite her. When he kisses her he says he can feel the blood...
What Coward did for the bright Weary of It All worldlings of London, Ellington did for the smart, sassy Take the "A " Train Harlem-Manhattan axis. This mood resonates throughout the show, particularly in Set Designer Tony Walton's scenic imagination. He inscribes the Cotton Club in neon across the night sky rather as Picasso painted with a flashlight in the dark. Through dark blue and white lighting, a flight of stairs becomes a piano keyboard to prance...
...more characters filter into the lobby, it becomes increasingly obvious that the Baltimore has turned into a flop house. (The missing "e" in the title shows not only how the neon sign has fared, but also hints at the new raison d'etre of the establishment.) Two or more stock hookers-with-hearts-of-gold wander in, complaining about the hot water and "business." They fare little better than Raiser, particularly Ann Diamond as April, who seems to have been given the role solely for her alarming shock of blond hair. Her arms flailing with almost every line, she demonstrates...
...corner of Bow and Plymption Sts., there's Harvard Pizza, with its "Help Wanted Experience" sign scrawled on a piece of cardboard in the window. Around the corner, on Mt. Auburn St., Cahaly's and Tommy's Lunch use pink neon to advertise ice cream, and hot pastromi...
...atmosphere of the South Florida lifestyle via Buffett's own interpretation of current themes. The cultural traces include Heineken empties and fishing lines, spongecake crumbs and lime rinds. But in his latest album, "Coconut Telegraph," although familiar themes reiterate themselves, an underlying message glows in the brain like a neon Krystal sign: Even Jimmy Buffett is getting older...