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...Sean "Puffy" Combs and entourage. The beat is simple but infectious and the lyrics resonate with references to cash, female body parts and luxury cars. Some of the lines that Shaggy wails to his female audience include the classic: "Tickle up me fancy with you sweet smelling leather/Smooth like silk you could be rough like a feather." Obviously, these are not some of the most insightful comments on romanticism and relationships between the sexes, but he manages to carry it off without seeming ridiculous or oversexed. Shaggy is a master at setting the mood, and the listener might as well...
...this the end of the literary line for Vonnegut? "I'm 75 years old," he answered gruffly, "You can ask an insurance agent." According to the author, he will put down his pen for good and take up painting silk-screens, which he gleefully calls, "a terribly impractical process...
...first drafts, even though it's in bed. And anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life's sufferings. Tears are the same whether they fall on silk damask or cotton." She has current proof of that. She and her husband, a government lawyer and the mayor of Takoma Park, Md., have just separated. With her 14-year-old daughter upstairs and the pain still palpable, she doesn't want to talk further about...
...bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears on the cheeks of the girl with corn-silk blond hair sitting beside...
...stands behind the 5-ft.-tall Timon model, which he manipulates with rods and wires. Others in the cast wear elaborate headpieces representing the animals they are portraying. Indeed, Taymor's entire production is highly stylized and impressionistic. A rushing waterfall is conveyed simply by a rippling stream of silk. Leaping gazelles are suggested by a Rube Goldberg contraption of wheels and spokes. "The poetry of the theater is that it allows the audience to use its imagination to fill in the blanks," says Taymor. "They become complicit in the theatrical experience...