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Early on, he makes Dunph seem a tad stupid, but when he's picked up hitchhiking by Jane and her rich parents, you glimpse the sneaky undercurrents of his rube act.
It is often impossible for translators, for example, to transfer the implications and undercurrents suggested by modified English spellings into another language.
At his best, Parker brings out the waltzingly malicious undercurrents in Wilde's "polite" intercourse, and his camera is at just the right distance to catch the anxious flickers of individuality under the socially mandated poses.
Nolte embodies its volcanic undercurrents, and he keeps Affliction off life support.
Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."