vamp

On "90210" and "Melrose Place," women were reduced to sexy vamps whose ambitions never extended beyond wreaking havoc or exacting revenge.

Since Nadja enjoys pretending to care, she “hypnotizes” the audience into thinking they’ve achieved the perfect finale by recreating what most people agree to be the perfect movie ending, albeit a version starring our vamps.

When a fan on the floor needed medical help at one point, Mars had his band vamp for a few minutes as security guards found the guy and carried him out.

There was that special, spring-loaded tension of the media apparatus readying to deliver big news after days of vamping.

Instead of the typical hypersexualized vamp, Björk offered girls like me a different template, and the more bizarre she revealed herself to be, the more our loyalty to her deepened.