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...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM EMERALD TO GOLD | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...back room are just nursing their beers, thinking about nothing, or trying to. But they see her, and all the windows steam up. She is the star of her own show, and she loves it. The jukebox gets her dancing, sexy, like on a runway. Pleasin' and teasin'. Hey, college boy, dance with me, closer than sweat. Give me a long, deep kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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