Word: worm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...General Lee Aliar, Jason Mills '99 skillfully evades our sympathies--the moment he is threatened, he turns into a shell-shock poster child and begins writhing all over the floor. He turns into a worm. Furthering this redoubling of the gender-turn as species-turn, Bryan Leach '00 plays an anthropomorphic (albeit morphologically impaired [a la Rilke's Archaisicher Torso Apollos]) dog, a stereotypical Scotland Yard scrub, who's neutered jokes wear thin, to say the least. Also included in this category is Donatello Mywife (ably, even riotously, acted by Michael Roiff '01) because he is: a) Italian...
...Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits the help of Founding Father sidekick Brook Worm (Adam "Waka" Green...
Schotz, the 41-year-old CEO of LMNOP (Leave My Name Off Productions), corners the freak-show stuff, concocting faster-paced versions of That's Incredible! His Fox series Guinness World Records: Primetime features oddities like worm-eating contests and the world's largest tumor, and his upcoming Fox special World's Most Shocking Medical Videos has footage of a woman's nose being regrown on her forehead. Schotz also makes the more wholesome Kids Say the Darndest Things and Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden. Lachman, who not long ago was known for creating Solid Gold and for winning...
Still, there is something coolly mesmerizing and wonderfully disturbing about the CD. Beck's lyrics, though elusive, are not nonsense. They obsess about issues of death and decay, and they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...
...secret of her success naturally eludes her former mate. Close, yearning observation has led him to believe that the celebrated are mostly not more gifted or harder working than he is. He thinks if he can just worm his way closer to the center of their world, he will be allowed to partake of their magic...