Word: svengalis
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...doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American Dream but in finding a way to make it their own. "I wanted to broaden the immigrant experience," says Jen. "The idea...
...Zach does not just push--he probes their psyches, tests their emotional limits. Zach is a complex, manipulative character who does his best to create good musical theater. Howells plays the role so adeptly that Zach loses none of his complexity as he assumes the role of Machiavelli, Svengali, father-figure and voyeur...
Starr, who assembled the soul group New Edition (from which the superlative Bobby Brown emerged), has the musical credentials that the Kids still lack. "Our first album was a Svengali-type situation," Jordan Knight concedes. "But on the second," Jon Knight adds, "we told him stuff we wanted. We're from the streets. We like music that is funky, with heavy bass...
...forth -- who wanted to keep programs that I wanted to get rid of because I thought they were wasteful. I think about the names I've been called in this town. I've been called Stepin Fetchit, I've been called Silent Sam, Mr. Mayor.* I've been called Svengali. It shows what people will do. To be popular, you must have a lot of programs, a lot of money for everybody, including the builders and developers and consultants...
...best rowdy traditions of country. The Trinity Session contains a startling version of Lou Reed's acrid Velvet Underground tune, Sweet Jane. The Velvets were a formative influence on the Cowboy Junkies, one that is still discernible in the unpolished precision of their playing, all those drifting Svengali chords that put on the whammy and make every tune into a three-minute trance state...