Word: trio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hirsute Texas trio, has always cut a jagged diagonal across the pop landscape. During the egocentric '80s, when Madonna, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage on an overheated highway...
...with RCA -- the band has returned to its roadhouse roots and emerged renewed and as bristly as ever. The album kicks off with the high-voltage Pincushion and never lets up. From the syncopated stomp of Fuzzbox Voodoo to the scrawl of searing guitar notes on Cherry Red, the trio, led by Gibbons' supple guitar work, rocks with earnest, no-frills intensity that harks back to ZZ Top's first hit, La Grange...
...autopsy report, struck a "mortal blow" to the throat. The secretary was similarly dispatched. With two knives grabbed from the kitchen, the assailants hacked at their victims' throats, chests and arms so savagely that a knife blade was broken. An hour after arriving, Boyerahmadi calmly collected the trio's passports, and the men drove off in an orange BMW. The guards failed to notice that Vakili's and Azadi's shirts were drenched in blood...
...whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they are so engaged in a game of dominoes. Jim is attracted to Catherine, but he respects Jules so much that he does not take advantage of the fact that Catherine is also attracted to him. As the summer ends, Jules proposes to Catherine, and she accepts...
Michael Morizio as Alfredo's father Georges Germont contributes his warm, paternal baritone voice to complete the trio of main characters. These are supported strongly by Joel Derfner as the man-about-town Gaston, Emily Baehr as Violetta's friend and rival hostess Flora, and Benjamin Siris as Violetta's jilted "client" the Baron Douphol...