Word: serpentes
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...then engulfed the microphone with his horn's bell and a smattering of Miles' licks. Williams closed his eyes for much of this tune, moving his head slowly side to side as he listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy...
...kabuki, as so many facilely claimed, but, rather, by silent films, which Kurosawa greatly admired. Toshiro Mifune's feral performance as the bandit is legendary, and Machiko Kyo brings off the task of presenting what are in reality four different women. Masayuki Mori as the husband is excellent; his serpent-like look of contempt is unforgettable. Takashi Shimura as the woodcutter is the quiet core of strength and humanity in the film, almost the movie's moral center. The music, which was written to resemble Maurice Ravel's "Bolero," is notoriously distracting, but this is an unfortunate cultural accident...
...Deep Hearts/The Making of Serpent" at 9:30p.m. "Deep Hearts" is an essay in describing anoccasion during the rainy season when twodifferent lineages meet to choose the most perfectBororo male. "The Making of Serpent" isavant-gardist Scott Bartlett's reexamination ofthe ways and means of the production of "Serpent."10 November Tuesday
...obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis, and then draw a rope through the wound, letting the blood drip onto bits of bark paper. Then he will take the bark and set it afire, and out of the rising smoke a vision of a serpent will appear...
Many of the new districts, created with the help of computers, looked strange but possessed some geographic integrity. Not so the North Carolina 12th. The meandering serpent represents not just an attempt to concentrate black voters but also a bit of traditional gerrymandering, as the Democratic state legislature strove to avoid siphoning away too many black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting...