Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nazis waiting for their statutes of limitations to run out. The country is really run by the shadowy "14 Families"--German expatriates all. Julia's character is named Roberto Straussmann and is made to look Aryan via an eerie blond dye job. Parador's national anthem is to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" and is often accompanied by "Deutschland Uber Alles...
Waits is playing with all kinds of innocence and perversion: one concert scene flashes between an emotional gospel tune and a simpering, streetcorner Bible thumper, also played by Waits; another shifts between Waits singing on stage, and, as Frank, mouthing the same song on the roof of a building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings...
...ease with which children can tune in to the dialogues, along with their capability of running up bills as high as $6,000, has inspired parents to protest the porn and party lines. Phone companies will usually forgive one month's charges if a customer claims the calls were placed by a child. As a result of these givebacks, some of the upstart phone services are facing uncollectible bills amounting to as much as 30% of their total revenue...
...LoPresti] started running like crazy for the gay vote" and began advocating positions that were "not at all in tune with what his previous positions had been," Gerstell said in an interview yesterday. "The LoPresti strategy was that he had to turn himself into more of a liberal...
...while longer, its premise serves as an excellent introduction to the kind of sweet electroshock the band can provide. Director Jonathan Demme concocted the Living Feelies idea when he first saw the band in 1980, and he subsequently cast the Feelies in Something Wild in 1986 and put | their tune Too Far Gone on the sound track of his current Married to the Mob. Demme says flat out the Feelies are the "premier live-rock band in America." They are in no danger of becoming the Demme house band, however. Their new Coyote/A&M album, Only Life, is just their...