Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month short of its sixth anniversary, MTV is singing a more troubled tune. Ratings have fallen off, and so has much of the excitement. A couple of hours spent watching MTV today reveal how quickly the avant-garde can become passe. With a few exceptions (the dazzling tattoo of animated images that illustrates Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer), videos have settled into a yawn-provoking rut. Typically they feature scenes of the band in performance intercut with snippets of a fanciful "story" or dressed up with now familiar visual gimmicks (cliche of the season: neoprimitive black and white...
Jill made the Virginia Woolf tattoo on her bicep dance, brushed her crew cut and said, "I thought you were planning to get seriously into writing this term, Betty...
...delight in the film, though, is what the Coen's don't include: the bits and pieces of plots and suggestions of plots that appear at the fringes of the frame: the strange prisoner who claims to eat sand, the Mad Biker's bronzed baby shoes, and an unexplained tattoo coincidence...
...convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior. Having kidnaped Nathan Jr. from the original kidnapers, Evelle wanders into a store and, just prior to robbing...
...impression in Freo that even at their own expense, the Australians are ready to warm him with a chorus of "good on yer." Picturing the town without Cup or customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle's heyday, it must have been a good place to get a tattoo, and in sleepier summers, the brilliant new bars and lavender boutiques may look a little dreary to the U.S. Navy warships that regularly put in to this liberty port...