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...year-old woman is to The Right Stuff what a ‘hard-to-place child?? is to an orphanage,” one member wrote. “But I am now part of a network, encountering new personalities every month, if only by mail...
...roommate—the famed J. Withers, who had been distracted by reruns of the show he starred on as a child??finally turns his head from the TV and deadpans perfectly...
...dancer suggestively contorted her body and mimicked a convincing “Harlem butt shake” more appropriate for a club scene; in another, the move was offset by the less-edgy conclusion that featured the three dancers cutely gathering together as if they were participating in a child??s play...
Artist Marcel Dzama must have sensed this strange blend of sweetness and murk, as his drawings for the album’s cover and liner could be viewed alternatively as a morose grown-up’s take on Alice and Wonderland or a child??s fantastic documentation of life under dictatorship. Normally I find album visuals irrelevant at best, annoying and distracting at worst, but somehow these ghoulishly lovely illustrations complement Guero wonderfully, like marginalia to an illuminated manuscript...
These comparisons, depoliticized through a child??s perceptions, touch on how the nature of terrorism has changed since World War II more than they evoke a political reading of the United States’ aggressions. The bloody horror of past bombings––both fire and atomic––has been replaced with the impersonal coldness of Sept. 11, many of whose victims, like Oskar’s father, were never even found...