I'm not getting any younger". Like a seduction scene from a 1940s movie, the thrill for many comet-watchers lies in what's left to the imagination.
Smith said the opening line of the song ("Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick") refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but added "on another [level], it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life".
In the strongest scene, Miles (Daniel Weyman) and waitress Maya (Ellie Piercy) conduct a seduction that progresses from appreciation of fine wine to tasting notes on each other.
Then it turned out not to be an improvisation, but 580 bars of written music, to go with a seduction scene featuring River Phoenix (from A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon) they were screening as we played.
Here's a tantalizing bit of seduction from Afternoon Men, where we get too much and not enough purely through dialogue: "Don't," she said.
Instead, if the car has an undeniable energy that, frankly, can make even Vladimir Lenin who drove a Rolls-Royce –exude seduction from the driver's seat, then that's the disarming allure to which car designers aspire, says Quentin Willson, a former host on Top Gear, a car-themed TV show on the BBC.
This was a great year for Asian music, and Manganiyar Seduction, from Rajasthan, northern India, provided the most spectacular staging for any Womad performance I have seen.
Favourites: Malian Boubacar Traoré, Blick Bassy from Cameroon and the Manganiyar Seduction from Rajasthan.
In his nine-part series, Hoinsky patiently chronicles his art of seduction, from body language at the point of approach to action tips for flirtation.
