Word: velvetized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...differentiation between the double roles relies largely on the costumes. The convicts are, of course, dressed in the requisite rags, but the officers are dressed a little too lushly--they wear red velvet trimmed with brass, white knee-breeches, white wigs and hats. In their eagerness to heighten the contrast between the status of the convicts and their masters, the designers have overstepped the boundary between verisimilitude and fantasy...
...Mountains of Your Head," features powerful guitar riffs, powerful drumming and searing vocals. The same things can be said about "Velvet Roof" and "Porchlight." Their slow stuff also works well. "Mineral" features longing vocals and an arrangement which deepen the longing considerably...
...Leppard's new album, Adrenalize, is a knockout punch in a velvet glove. Combining hard and soft guitar, this album will sway even the most adamant opponent of hard rock...
...best housedress, Celia del Pino, a 63-year-old revolutionary, ) sits in a wicker swing "guarding the north coast of Cuba." She wears the drop pearl earrings left by her departed Spanish lover and dreams of being honored by Fidel Castro -- "El Lider himself" -- on a red velvet divan. Instead, before dawn, she sights her dead husband, iridescent blue and "taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama...
...Bill Clinton responds to near-weekly allegations with little more than a made-for-TV smile, some voters seem to think that his response typifies easy Southern charm and resilience. My inkling is that Clinton is just a candidate who can already smell the velvet drapery of the Oval Office...