Word: chameleonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serpentine. Tommy Thompson's new book about a daring criminal chameleon who stalks Asia in search of unsuspecting tourists, is the product of such a wedding. Thompson, best known for Blood and Money--a searching dissection of the bizarre sequence of Hill murders in Houston-does two things very well. He picks great subjects. You keep having to remind yourself that Serpentine is, after all, non-fiction. In fact, after reading a couple of Thompson's quasi-novels, one might accuse him of choosing topics that any garden-variety journalist could fish a bestseller out of. Grisly, morbid, sick, perverse...
...Florida, the critics are right: a reporter who flunked psychology in college became a licensed psychologist in Miami, a hamster was officially dubbed "animal psychologist" in Pensacola, and a pet chameleon was licensed as a psychoanalyst and sex therapist in Polk County...
Feets is so full of variety. "Knee Deep," the album's only instrumental, brings to mind the Hancock of years past and successes that included "Water-melon Man" and "Chameleon." Not that "Knee Deep" ranks with those oldies, but Hancock hasn't lost his old touch...
...test the limits of his messianic image--just how much could his lovers love him? And here, in 1970, he was at the height of his stagestar image--and of his alcoholism--broken down in the middle of a song, kind of crumpled and fat, and suddenly the chameleon galleries were turning...
...playing just that Marxist maverick role, however, Carrillo has won much attention. Cambio 16, a respected Madrid weekly, has described him as "one of the most Machiavellian, intelligent and chameleon-like politicians on the world scene." That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...