Word: ooh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album in the country for three weeks running. Produced by Nile Rodgers, who funkified David Bowie not so long ago, the record is as slick as a dance floor, which is the place where it sounds best. Songs like the title track ("Like a virgin, ooh, ooh . . . Feels so good inside") and Material Girl ("Some boys try and some boys lie but/ I don't let them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like...
...Ooh! My soul! That's what the man said...
...stunts onstage, along with dancing that was camp enough to get anyone busted in a back alley. Songs that sounded like nonsense (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Slippin 'and Slidin ') but whose beat seemed to hint of unearthly pleasures centered somewhere between the gut and the gutter. Ooh! My soul...
...blandsome shop owner both in love with a woman Unworthy of Their Affections. Outfitted in Whore of Babylon red slips and pumps, Huppert is fetching - surprisingly so, considering she has no character to play, only an atti tude. As for Blier, his wry French spirit is enervated here. Ooh la la has given way to hélas! -By Richard Corliss
...torts? Flying briefs? What can the other trappings be? Well, "Ooh-sha-la-la." And "Ah-a-ah-a-a-ha." And, inextremis, after all other ancient echoes of Top 40 radio have been exhausted, there is always that lonely, sibilant warbling that sounds like a dance-band leader whistling inside a diving bell...