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Taken from the NY Public Library's exhibition,the posters, banners, letters, magazines, articlesand photographs serve to support the text andalmost provide a pictorial text on their own. Attimes, the book can be academically dry; at othertimes, it can be preachy. It is dry, however, onlywhen the writers attempt to integrate too manysources without enough commentary; it seemspreachy only when taking on homophobia anddiscrimination. Given the nature and context ofthese flaws, they are certainly forgivable
Spooky: No, I think this music is open to a whole domain of whoever listens to music in general. I try as much as possible to leave an open text. In the '60s there was a guy named Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer who developed what he called the unbound novel, a kind of idea where the theme, the story, is kind of series of interlocking loops and repetitions. The people who actually listen to hip-hop, dance music, techno, salsa, you name it, everything is so much more diverse than the corporations would have you think or the radio...
...People may tend to think it's a bunch of geekyguys singing some Latin text," Giugliano said...
Schine leaves us with a paraphrased section of a biology text and a set of journal entries sparkling with banality. At one point, underdeveloped character aboard ship Gloria screams, "Blame it one the stars!" Perhaps they are the culprits. But fate aside, Freud, Marx and all of the jargon undermine Schine's witty prose. As Jane's mother tells her daughter, the reader might associate with the author: "You are a girl of conviction. I admire that...
...time has proven Shakespeare especially receptive to changes in setting and order. Last weekend's Richard III is unusual in that both aspects were changed--not only was it produced backwards, it was produced backwards in an insane asylum. While the viability of both changes is suggested by the text itself, their simultaneous implementation is a very bold move. The historical Richard III was the deserving subject of horror stories for a good century prior to Shakespeare's dramatization, and undoubtedly, this is the same story, with all the murder, intrigue and back-stabbing that suggests...