Word: succubus
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...find at longhouses like Long Dungan, where 35-year-old Web designer Calvin Jemarang takes me to meet his spry 83-year-old uncle Kojan Kabeng, a sculptor and blowpiper, one of the last of a dying breed. Kojan's kitchen lintel is decorated with a radiant succubus motif, and when I ask the legend behind it - in which a hunter is seduced and eaten by a beautiful spirit - Calvin perks up; he has never heard it either. Later, at a nearby Sekapan longhouse, 35-year-old Stephen George proudly shows me an ironwood dugout that can fit 93 rowers...
...yanks the story out of its period whenever she's on screen. (Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, took three nominations; Eastwood's much superior Gran Torino, none.) It would have made far more sense, though obviously not to the Academy, if she'd been cited as the succulent succubus of the comic-book film Wanted - a true demonstration of star quality.
Granted, the plot of Tears of the Sun requires that Willis' military mission become a humanitarian one. But Bellucci, 34, tends to have a mesmerizing effect on men, onscreen and off. Despite herself, she's a sublime succubus: Monica demonica. With her voluptuous figure, majestically sullen face and exquisite eyelashes, she projects a quality sadly absent in most Hollywood star-babes: a knowing, passionate womanhood. That could be why in so many of her European films she plays the sort of woman who brings out the obsessive in men just by walking past them...
...contours of the Nobrow landscape. He's the kind of guy, he lets us know while not really boasting, who can decant wine, went to Oxford, dresses in Helmut Lang and agnes b., and who uses the term "arbiters elegantiae" repeatedly, while calling his father's wardrobe a "hegemonic succubus." But he's also enamored of the oeuvre of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. and wears Haitian T shirts. He's a citizen of Nobrow...
...identical title for a short story about a mystical oil geologist who, like the novel's hero, can see oil beneath mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus in his story The Myths of Bears. And the novel's wilderness setting is very like the author's home valley in northern Montana, glorified in The Book of Yaak...