Word: tango
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...most of the pop isn’t bathos. McDonald covers a pair of songs by ’70s songwriter Laura Nyro (“To a Child” and “Tom Cat Goodbye”) and a tango by Rufus Wainwright (“Damned Ladies”), none of which feel like a waste of McDonald’s talent...
...more adventurous time in movies, such a freedom of expression seemed imminent. In the late '60s and early '70s, as American directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) and Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) made the screen a place where the intimacies of adult couples could be dramatized...
...former three (or fewer) chords and a cloud of dust Velvet Underground homage style are in the tracks that bookend the album, “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind” and “The Story of Yo La Tango.” But while the track finds a nice few-note melody and leans on it for 10+ minutes like back in the day, there is a sense of restraint to the guitar solos that prevents them from really taking off. That these two songs, as well as the 69-minute album...
...MORE THAN 30 YEARS, THE Clintons have been the most fascinating tango act in politics. Sometimes they moved perfectly in synch. Other times, they had to make up the steps as they went. But always each has known what to do when the other stumbled. She became a Clinton not when she married Bill but after he lost his first bid for re-election as Arkansas Governor and she realized the state's voters weren't ready for a first lady who kept her last name...
...folks, even just two weeks into my voluntary expatriation, I can tell you that the PR is nothing more than a show, replete with all the authenticity of a cheesy tourist trap; this picture of Buenos Aires is like laying down $60 for a greasy dinner and an overwrought tango performance—it’s simply not the real thing. People forget that Buenos Aires, despite what its inhabitants may tell you, is, in the end, a South American city: brazen political corruption, misinformation, and bureaucracy like you wouldn’t believe are everyday realities here...