Presiding over a scene that has a vaguely contemporary ambiance is the club's owner, Greta ( Mick Jagger ), a gaunt, famished-looking drag queen ( Jagger resembles Diana Vreeland ) inscrutably surveying the revelers from her perch high on a trapeze.
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Other major characters include Warbucks'right-hand men, "'Punjab "', an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the "'Asp "', an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937.
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In 1991, when Cuomo was contemplating a run for the presidency _ and had a plane waiting to fly him to New Hampshire to begin his campaign _ the governor surprised supporters by announcing, inscrutably, that he could not make the race because he was working on a budget with Marino.
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This leaves the socially determinist implication that meanings and interpretations are dictated from above, by " the whims of an inscrutably powerful collective being, Society . " For Hodge and Kress, social semiotics must respond to the question and explain how the social shaping of meanings works in practice ( 1988 : 22 ).
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Robert Altman's highly specific back-lot-and-front-office satire; in fact, audiences never even learn what exactly Eddie and Mickey do in the business ( there's one brief office scene, in which Penn and Spacey inscrutably pore over actors'8-by-10 glossies ).
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And wordless-syllable breakdown / bridge / pre-chorus . " The song was placed at # 98 on " Pop Crush "'s " Top 100 Songs of 2012 ", being described as " awesome, riding an inscrutably funky stomp-clap hook, with Nelly playfully serving as head head cheerleader ."
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So when what may ( or may not ) have been the usual catalog of daily enigmas unfolded on the subway Thursday _ trains idling in stations, trains skipping stops, trains inscrutably yanked out of service _ more than a few New Yorkers violated the eye contact taboo, locked onto the gaze of a stranger and exchanged a knowing smirk.
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In her 2002 book of essays, " Counting My Chickens . . . and Other Home Thoughts " ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux ), she rails against bottled water, the worthlessness of the entire profession of " consultant, " the difficulty of turning on the telly with those nasty, inscrutably labeled remotes, and other horrors of modern life.
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Benicio Del Toro, inscrutably cooler than ever ), cook up a cockeyed plan to ransom a surrogate mother ( Juliette Lewis ) . ( The last names of the characters were inspired by the real-life monickers of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . ) Little do these two know that the young woman's wealthy womb-renters are deeply involved with the mob.
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The St . Petersburg Chamber Choir, which has recorded both Rachmaninoff's Liturgy and Vespers for Philips ( inscrutably packaged in this country as " Meditations at Midnight " and " Evening Star " ), performed excerpts from the Vespers at its New York concert, led by Nikolai Korniev . The other half of the program consisted of arialike works, with the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as soloist.
