Word: datedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While "Now Dig This" is an entertaining, well-assembled collection of Southern's writing, the "greatest hits" book he himself put together, "Red-Dirt Marijuana" (1967) shows the true depth of his talent, as the reader sees him adopting different styles and narrative voices, and nailing every one. The contents...
Then, for the maximum degree of difficulty, I went after my ancient VCR, which doesn't even have a remote. It's a legacy from a woman I dated for about five minutes back in 1993--and it was old when she bought it. Ladies and gentlemen, for 10 years...
There are any number of reasons that TV critics resent movie critics. Owing to the prevalent and dated notion that film is still the superior and more culturally influential medium, our pals on the movie end get ample acreage and front-page positioning to review movies that fewer people will...
Some of that same sorcery--minus the stomach-upsetting side effects--is present in the duo's terrific new CD Gozo Poderoso (BMG U.S. Latin). Aterciopelados (the name means the Velvety Ones and was borrowed from the writings of Simone de Beauvoir) formed in Bogota around 1990. Echeverri's parents...
We trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums...