Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street life and the debasement that it signifies." Rebutting the argument that the ditty's commercial intent moots its artistic value, Souter playfully enlists Samuel Johnson: " 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.' " Finally, the court's Latin scholar scores head-banger points for using the phrase "opening bass riff" without quotation marks...
Vasquez said the "offensive workingenvironment" phrase could be unfairly used againstgays and lesbians if people claim they were notonly sexually harassed, but made even moreuncomfortabel because the alleged harasser wasgay...
Nevertheless, the book is a "good read" in the best sense of that overused phrase. It sustains the reader's interest, it has pleasantly rich descriptions of the blueness of seas and skies, and the vignettes of life in the village of Santiago are absorbing. Best of all, it is entirely possible to revel in the dainty perfection of the symbolism contained in Benitez's flowers, stars, soil and smoke without considering the triteness...
...Helium the subject dominates the lyrics: that subject is the commodification of sex, the squeezing-out of whatever intimacy might have once been possible between boys and girls, and its apparent replacement by a frightening network of mutual but very unequal dependence and exchange. The title phrase "Pirate Prude" appears in two songs. It turns out, I think, to mean that the body as an object with use-value (to be sold, or taken, by a "pirate" boyfriend; to be "pirated," appropriated for gain, by the body's owner) and the body as a source of fear (to a "prude...
...good example of why White Oak's eclectic programming works -- and may be a harbinger of dance's future. Unlike virtually any other choreographer, Cunningham thinks in terms of neither music nor steps but segments of time. "Given 10 seconds," he says, "the dancer has to define the phrase and accent something within the time." An evening of Cunningham can be bewitching. But it is only when one sees one of his pieces alongside the choreography of others that one appreciates just how different in weight and shape his work really is. Cunningham says he created Signals after observing groupings...