Word: vamping
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...music. She choreographs her own material-sort of. "I get the idea of what she does, memorize it and then teach it back to her," says Richard Callaghan, her eighth coach in as many years. A tantalizing combination of child and woman, Bobek can bat her eyelashes like a vamp and then screw up her face like a self-conscious kid. Her devil-may-care approach to training has blocked her progress for years. But with the Detroit-based Callaghan, she has settled down, losing weight and working diligently...
...waifed good-bye to those bird-boned, droopy-dressed, grunge girls. Good riddance! We've witnessed the fall of the ubiquitous slip dress, unshackled ourselves from those nasty crocheted chokers and beckoned a whole new era with a wiggle of our collective manicured finger. Polished, of course, with Vamp by Chanel, currently selling like it's going out of style. Maybe because...
...Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...
...Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting...
...review the Pudding, then, you've go to take it for what it is. So: are the puns bad enough? In a word, yes. Are "the anachronisms fitting enough? "Is the Pope gonna be Catholic?" Are the vamps vamp enough? They do their high heels proud. Is the script meta enough? it you ask me, there's no such thing as too much meta. And my opinion counts, since "I'm the reviewer...