Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book glows, holographic, with an unearthly halo, so that the precise details of lemon groves and white walls, dirty linoleum stairs, and blue velvet all hold the threat of profound poetry...
...Arista). Wherever Lydon and all other assorted punks, new wavers and no wavers may have come from, no matter where they are all headed, Lou Reed has already been there. Public Image owes a debt to the saber-toothed experiments of Reed's late '60s band, the Velvet Underground, and Reed still remains several furlongs ahead of anyone in laying down jagged fragments of autobiography that cut like pieces of a shattered mirror. Growing Up in Public is a collection of primal assaults and tentative love songs that all together are like a return ticket from a voyage...
Many advertisements "glorify" violence against women by portraying beaten or submissive women, Kilbourne said. Some, like the Black Velvet commercials, "inevitably lead to the acceptance of women being physically abused," she added...
...suppose we couldn't all act like that? Go swooping around in a velvet cape with red satin lining and a feathered hat? That part's the easy part...
...soon as the two women are asleep, snoring and snorting, a little man toddles up to center stage and sings. "Look at me. Tell me what you see." His two short legs in pink tights stick out of a black velvet tunic. This little man, Don Octave (Matt Olivia), is Donna Ribalda's abductor and brother. For all his pink flakiness, the Spanish gypsy lady adores...