MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO Never less than ambitious, Meshell Ndegeocello has come up with an album, "The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams," that's a vertiginous, style-hopping meditation on God and desire, spirit and flesh.
Much of the action is displaced to Facebook and text messages, and the conspicuous dubbing of voices throughout gives this vertiginous, documentary-style comedy the air of a live-action cartoon.
And floor-to-ceiling video images by Jared Mezzocchi surround the set on three sides, providing a vertiginous theme-park-style panorama in motion of Manhattan streets.
Tonéx's eccentric style and vertiginous high notes helped make him one of the most acclaimed praise singers of the past decade and, for a time, one of the most successful.
In 2014 vertiginous fascinators, often worn mohawk style down the middle of the head, were the standout theme.
The heroine of the day marches through life in boots, be they thigh-, knee-, calf- or ankle-high, vertiginous or flat, biker or army style.
But its second album is a vertiginous whirlwind tour of the Americas, switching styles and languages as if bilinguality is only the beginning.
In architecture, the agenda was set across the Atlantic, by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's embracing of Las Vegas neon, by the historicist references of Michael Graves, the vertiginous corporate lobbies of John Portman and the assemblage style of Frank Gehry's house.
Denis Lenoir's cinematography intersperses evocatively murky portraits of Tokyo nightlife and a rain-swept Paris with vertiginous animated sequences, then artfully blends the two styles.
(The stage of Thomas Lynch's expressionist-style set does a lot of vertiginous revolving.) And why does poor Ms. Levering have to flash her bare breasts a la Alice Ripley in "The Rocky Horror Show"?
