Word: prude
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Pfeiffer, most recently seen in "Wolf" withJack Nicholson and "The Age of Innocence" withDaniel Day-Lewis, is well-known for a variety ofsultry movie roles. Her performances as a loungesinger in "The Fabulous Baker Boys," Catwoman in"Batman," and a fallen prude in "DangerousLiaisons" have long eclipsed her early work inmovies such as the musical "Grease...
Then we have Atsuko Yamamoto (Joan Cheng), a snobbish prude who stubbornly clutches to her Japanese roots and refuses to acknowledge that her Japanese-American husband has completely forgotten his cultural heritage. Cheng fleshes out the part to perfection. She is delightfully funny when she plays out the bitchy side of Atsuko...
...more successful career in the classroom than on the diamond; a lawyer trained at Columbia who never established a practice; a linguist with a reluctance to converse in any of the dozen languages he had studied; and a darkly handsome ladies' man who was nevertheless something of a prude...
...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...
There are only six songs on Pirate Prude, arranged into two groups of three (on the vinyl version, that means side one and side two): song one is a long, gradually building, apprehensive work; song two is short, light, vocal-oriented, and witty; song three is the emotional punchline, with a memorable chorus and a slow riff to match. The first song on side two, called "ooo," includes both the sounds of hesitant fingers on a guitar neck and a periodic irruption of jazzy trumpet-playing, as if to dramatize some kind of contest between cool, sleek exterior (trumpets...