Alexis Petridis of " The Guardian " wrote " A lot of the album's power and strangeness comes from the way [ the lyrics ] cut against the lusciousness of the arrangements . . . and the loveliness of the melodies . " He praised Parker for creating psychedelia by leaving the listener " simultaneously baffled and intrigued ", rather than resorting to cliched psychedelic music effects.
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"Nothing beats the perfumed lusciousness of a litchi right off the tree, " said Noble Hendrix, a former surgeon who fell in love with litchi nuts and is now a leading grower of the fruit, in Homestead, Fla . " But we provide the next best thing by picking in the morning and flying the fruit to New York that afternoon, so it's on sale the next day ."
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Ms . Prince is in lovely voice, lacing her musical phrasings with wistful breathlessness and sustained notes that are less dainty silver than burnished gold . ( " Hello, Young Lovers " has seldom sounded more heart-felt . ) She exudes a cream-skinned lusciousness in Roger Kirk's rich costumes ( there's no question that this Anna has legs and thighs beneath those hoop skirts ), and her chin becomes a saucy prow of Victorian determination.
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If Ms . Ventura doesn't bow to makeover madness _ and there is a sense that she won't _ it will speak volumes about where America is, stylewise, in 1999 . In an era of telecommuting and online shopping, people don't have the kind of commitment to style that it took for someone like Miss Graham to wear a hairdo that required not only a weekly wash and set, but also a certain sleep posture to preserve its lusciousness between visits to a beautician.
