A model trading in illusions of heightened female subservience that remain essentially taken for granted to this day, Leonora is essentially stuck between two modes of prostitution: literally posing at the department store that pays her practically nothing, or figuratively posing at Smith’s mansion...
To remain in one's memory; not be forgotten: That kind of compliment stays with you for years. [Middle English steien, from Old French ester, esteir, from Latin stāre; see stā- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: stay1, linger, remain, tarry1, wait These verbs mean to continue to...
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS–US theatrical poster: 39 ¾” x 27”3 signed by Nettie Featured photo of subcommandante Marcos by acclaimed Mexican photographer Frida Hartz, with images by Mexican political lithographer José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar who created the art of the "Calavera" skeletons that...
Combined with sub-plots, this may all sound too trivial and dated to be worth reading. Yet, as with Austen, what raises this novel above unendurable banality is Taylor’s skill in combining comedy, acerbic wit and poignancy, although her acute observations are expressed through the thoughts ...
George Miller shows us the consequences of this individual madness and human commodification: the emergence of the Wasteland with its scarred and deformed people, the “sour” soil which parallels the infertile people, the exploitative economic structure (depicting a white elite subjugating an aborigi...
history and pull out some prime ’80s sleaze (9 1/2 Weeks, Body Double), international and arthouse flicks (3-D Sex and Zen, Romance), LGBTQ-focused (Blue is the Warmest Color, Stranger by the Lake), and threw in stuff that may or may not be straight-up porn (9 Songs, Love)....