Sentences with phrase «as snake charmers»

In her memoir, The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine recounts her life on the road with a traveling side show, in which she performed as a snake charmer, an escape artist and the titular Electric Woman.

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She's depicted as a Medusa - like snake charmer, complete with serpent - like tendrils of hair, who some called a sorceress.

Gold's industry peers liken the way she does her job to the practice of an alchemist, a snake charmer, a card sharp, as if she were performing some kind of shadowy magic.

Just as during the Kumbh Mela sadhus and hermits expect you to click there photo and pay for it, during Pushkar Fair expect to be chased by gypsies, snake charmers and locals where they expect you to pay them for photographing them.

A number of the pieces, such as the depiction of a bulldozer knocking over a snake charmer from the 2006 series «Charming Nation,» address the rapid social changes confronting a globalizing India today, yet they often do this with a sense of ambivalence.

In addition to his two recent video works on display at Leila Heller Gallery, Azari also commissioned a painter to create replicas of classic orientalist paintings with specific changes or additions, such as playboy bunnies inserted into bath - house scenes, or RPG launchers and AK - 47s inserted into Jean - Léon Gérôme's iconic painting «The Snake Charmer» (1870).

Although it looks as if a snake being «charmed» is listening to the music, it is really just watching and following the physical motions of the snake charmer as it perceives the player and his flute as a predatorial threat and would continue to do so even if the snake charmer stopped playing the tune.