Word: timelessly
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...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop’s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...appeared in the Top 10 recently and James Brown hasn't. She gets Mary J. Blige to contribute some fine backing vocals and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to offer up a nice song and--presto!--Aretha is radio-ready. It doesn't take much to make the timeless timely...
...have one night a week with her, and father will have two. (It's only fair: he paid for her.) Kalki is demeaned and brutalized, chained in the barn, and soon a clan war breaks out. As the deaths escalate, inevitability swells in the viewer's gut. This is timeless tragedy, as true as it is appalling...
...appeared in the U.S. Top 10 recently and James Brown hasn't. She gets Mary J. Blige to contribute some fine backing vocals and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to offer up a nice song and - presto! - Aretha is radio-ready. It doesn't take much to make the timeless timely. If Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinéad O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album...
...Zatoichis share the same spirit as their creators: independent, charismatic, innovative. Kitano's Zatoichi succeeds, not by obliterating Katsu's character but by giving it a new Beat. The winning result (the film had critics swooning at the Venice Film Festival last week) is as cutting edge and timeless as the samurai genre itself. "There are bad guys, sword fights, pitiful kids, and everyone ends up dancing," says Kitano. "There are no more righteous films around." Even a blind man could see that...