Word: vamping
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...VAMP BY CHANEL First the supermodels painted their nails black as dried blood. Then Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction and Madonna. Now everyone wants to vamp. With lipstick to match...
...Phyllis, Sarah Burt-Kinderman progresses nicely from vain air head to vamp to madwoman. Her sarcastic banter with Bishop in the play's first scenes has something, appropriately enough, of Katherine Hepburn's archness. She is especially impressive in the rape scene, where Phyllis' revulsion and hysteria are truly disturbing. Even in the play's worst scene, in which Phyllis recalls a nightmare about fat men in skirts which comes dangerously close to moralizing about sexual intolerance, Burt-Kinderman is effective and at ease...
...homework paid off for Kidman. To Die For has won the 28-year-old Australian the most lustrous reviews of her career. Told in a blur of tabloid headlines, mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work...
...picked upvarious shakers and bells which he used to furtherthe pseudo-exotic atmosphere that teetered on thebrink between ritualistic splendour and purekitsch. Unfortunately, that line was irrevocablycrossed on the tune that ended the set. PianistWilliam Henderson moved over to a Casio keyboardand punched out a bubble-gum pop vamp whileSanders danced around the stage. Sanders thenpicked up a huge metal hemisphere, banged it witha mallet and let the reverberations from the belllinger until they faded to the infinite. Withthis, complete Karmic transcendence of the soulwas reached, although a curiously cheesy smellremained in the air for a long time after...
...name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...