Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world of "big science" and an African tribal society have collided. In "Langued' Amour." Anderson (using both her normal voice and vocoder) retells the Adam and Eve story over a haunting background of electronic conches, finally breaking into vocoder love song. Anderson directly addresses the listener-"What did the snake say? Yes! What was she saying? OK. I will tell you."-in order to give this storytelling impression...
...People, gives little here as Claude's sultry wife. Trying to look angry at Claude, she seems only catatonic. Producers Marvin Worth and Joe Wizan perhaps cast Kinski for other attributes which she displays generously and frequently. Expect no eroticism, though: the onetime star of Cat People and snake-loving poster pinup gets no kinkier than seducing Moore with a pig's mask...
...could Randy Newman's asinine I Love L.A. make your top 20 videos and not Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf or Union of the Snake...
Stoppard has written a play as new as nouvelle cuisine (which, incidentally, it dismisses as passe) and as defiantly déjà vu as Private Lives, Miss Julie and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (allusions to which snake deviously through the plot). On its dazzling surface, The Real Thing is a throwback to the comedies of Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward and Philip Barry. This is love among the leisure classes, in which aristocrats of style spend their time polishing epigrams and tiptoeing into one another's penthouse souls. Stoppard's characters have...
...When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting snake, emerged gleaming, devilish, unrecognizable." The creature that resulted from this metamorphosis was soon to make himself at home in the bed of another of Colette's celebrated characters, Léa, the retired courtesan. Upon reading the final version of Chéri, André Gide wrote the author...