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Stipe, the band's front man and most prominent idiosyncrat, writes and performs as if he and irony were locked in a perpetual thumb wrassling match. Onstage, he will show up in an organza suit designed by Adelle Lutz, which, turning transparent under the stage lights, is obviously meant to summon visions of the oversize whites in which Lutz's husband David Byrne cavorted through Stop Making Sense. Stipe (the name rhymes with the slender-billed bird that good ole boys send gullible slickers out to hunt) devotes himself to his eccentricities, currycombing them until they gleam like attributes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreaming At The Wheel | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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