Word: medusae
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...Medusa...
Albums that feature cover versions of other people's songs seem to be both the easiest and the most difficult to pull off. With her latest album, Medusa, chameleon-like pop diva Annie Lennox succeeds brilliantly in transforming old songs into new works...
...With Medusa, however, Lennox makes the most of these inherent obstacles. What emerges is a powerful, energetic recreation of the past. She manipulates a broad range of musical styles, covering the work of artists as diverse as Bob Marley, The Clash and Procol Harem...
...title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind to entertain...
...chronologically impossible, the reviewers miss the point about visual influences. When Chereau stages the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, he has the entire tradition of French art behind him. The artfully twisted limbs and contorted white bodies come not from "Schindler's List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...