Word: wench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foxy little wench aren't you?" (wild cheers...
Frankenstein was a modern horror story; Russell means Gothic to be the last horror show. Byron is Count Dracula, feeding on his guests' dreams and demons. Shelley is every weak hero, Polidori every mad doctor, Clairmont every wench whose lust turns her into a succubus. And Godwin, racked by visions of her stillborn child, becomes the cursed mothers of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. From the labor of her nightmares, she gives birth to literature's most enduring monster...
...violence are so intermingled here that the sex scenes aren't a turn-on and the graphic bits of violence induce fits of laughter instead of a quickening of the pulse. The only notable monologue in the movie is the bad-ass emperor's one-liner: "On your knees, wench, and show me what hath God wrought." Well, Man and not God wrought this turkey, which is possibly the only thing in the universe designed more confusingly than New York City Mass Transit...
...anywhere and a surprisingly modern figure emerges, with his ambition, flaws and lust intact. ) He plays up to the powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh." Yet Pepys' journals are far more than an account...
...catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other's arms at dawn...