Her essential cynicism, misanthropy, her attraction to erotic perversion, mania and violence is dressed in deliberately banal detail: she creates a powerful sense of menace as she delicately exposes the teeming horrors of the human psyche beneath the humdrum.
During this interview, Biruté Mary Galdikas shares the details of her life in what happened to be one of the most unexploited and unknown places on earth, as she then exposes the factors that are today threatening the region's outstanding singularities.
In her opening 20 minutes, Notaro's every word is weighted, her purpose always devious, as (like Louis CK) she exposes the untrustworthiness of the standup contract.
She defers to them, even as she's exposing their incredible misbehavior; she is unequivocally respectful of power, as if it were a moral good.
One thing she remembers is a doctor and a police detective interviewing her as she lay exposed from the waist down for a gynecological examination.
Mrs Uludag got death threats from within her community, and was once assaulted by hard-line Greek-Cypriots, as she helped expose how some of the killings had been by extremists acting against their own respective sides.
She exposes it as both a destructive, dangerous custom and a poignant symbol of male domination — one easily hidden and one which most Egyptian women carry silently throughout their entire lives.
And I feel grateful she exposed herself as much as she did, given the pain of what she just went through.
My own introduction to "Thaïs" was somewhat less lurid and only secondhand, but it came early on from my strictly family-values father, who never tired of telling me how Mary Garden's hot-as-a-hornet impersonation of Massenet's grande horizontale brought the house down in Boston when she exposed herself as Venus incarnate at the end of Act I.
In fighting words and brave personal witness, she exposed lynching as a crime against a people.
