Word: raindrops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment as if you both go way back. She is dressed crazysexycool: a puffy hat, a low-cut leotard top with a cardigan throwover, knickers, black boots. There is a freshly cut apple sweetness about her face and also something simultaneously sad and bright, like sunlight off a raindrop. This amiable radiance is, of course, why she's a star, and you're getting it firsthand now, unfiltered, undiluted. Still, she's got a tricky, winding road ahead. Finding film scripts as well written as her TV series, scripts that aren't steaming chunks of Gen Y exploitation, would...
...fond of verbal special effects, and his prose reads almost like a poet's at times Image follows metaphor, which follow conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...
...exactly can one be "tasty like a raindrop"? The great philosophers have not yet answered this question, but they would be dancing at a Roxette concert just the same...