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JAMIE TARSES ABC let this exec twist in the wind, but she got revenge--those stupid yellow ads were hers...
...dinnerware and cutlery that her company, Izabel Lam International, began marketing in 1989 were an immediate success. Getting the line manufactured was a headache, however. Lam was then working in bronze, which had a beautiful soft luster, but American manufacturers could not seem to give it the special twist she wanted. The only factory that could was in Thailand...
...also humiliates the god and his female band of helpers, called Maenads. Pentheus's secret desire to watch the lurid actions of the Bacchae is so strong, however, that Dionysos easily tricks him into dressing as a woman so he can observe the possessed women safely. In a cruel twist of divine intervention, Pentheus's own mother, Agave, leads the Bacchae in decapitating him with their bare hands. She returns to Thebes, proud as punch of her actions, but her enraged father Kadmos soon forces the truth before her disbelieving eyes...
...production intended. Here, Dionysos is a man, which is quite appropriate in the patriarchal society of Greece (and today). He has the ultimate power literally and figuratively; and although they lust after him, the Maenads also sometimes engage in lesbian-ish petting of each other. In addition, a great twist is added to the "Pentheus In Drag" scene as Pentheus is suddenly 'reduced' to becoming another woman drooling over Dionysos. He surrenders his sexual power, and as a result, his political power as well. The mocking of Pentheus in a dress is very childish and reminiscent of third-grade...
...funny old game,? as they say in England, soccer?s birthplace. But the game?s sense of humor took a decidedly wicked twist with yesterday?s draw for the 1998 World Cup Finals in France. On June 21, U.S. captain John Harkes will lead his men out onto the field to face Iran...