Word: sinuously
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...huggermugger, knocking back drinks with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and flattening intrusive photographers? How could the exuberance of Come Fly with Me, the joyful, rapturous carnality of I've Got You Under My Skin (the '56 version, with the brassy transcendence of Nelson Riddle's arrangement), the sinuous Summer Wind match up with the temperament of a tempestuous loner who traveled with a squadron of pals and protectors, who swung on and spat on the ladies and gents of the press and who declined to forswear certain companions--Vegas oddsmakers and knee breakers, sharply tailored gentlemen...
...design. She stayed to work for Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene, then launched her own clothing line in the early 1980s. By 1988, however, she abandoned clothing design to concentrate on what seemed like an impossible artistic ambition: giving metal objects the look of some of the shifting and sinuous forms she saw in underwater visions while scuba diving. Somehow she brought it off: Lam can give steel the look of draped silk...
Finley Quaye's inventive, off-kilter debut, Maverick a Strike, is also bursting with freshness and new life. His music has a sinuous reggae groove twisting through it, but it is laced with folky acoustic guitars and trip-hop electronic doodles and flourishes (he's an uncle of trip-hop maverick Tricky). It's easy for music this arty to forget about heart, but not here; on the song Even After All, Quaye turns in a tender, haunting ballad...
Close your eyes and you'd swear you were listening to Montgomery Clift. Open them, however, and all you have is Ben Chaplin, the young British actor, who may be able to match the indolent flatness of Clift's voice, but lacks the sinuous ambiguity Clift brought to the role of fortune-hunting Morris Townsend in the 1949 movie The Heiress...
...rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity and hints of Depp's other main line, which consists of making...