Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belong to an equally worldwide (though less exposed) counterculture that values quality sound and whose members struggle for cultural survival in the face of the Mainstream Threat by battling each other, be it on microphones, turntables or breakdancing floors. And I try to portray it in the scribbles that cover my book of rhymes; and that's real, baby...
With Stephen Spielberg's recent purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...
...creation of such a confident narrativevoice attests to Golden's diligence and skill as afiction writer. While Golden's name and the words"a novel" appear on the cover of Memoirs ofa Geisha, the novel begins with a translator'snote, convincingly signed by "Jakob Haarhuis,Arnold Rusoff Professor of Japanese History, NewYork University." The story begins from there asthe ever hopeful, bitterly realistic voice ofSayuri takes over, and the reader finds himself sotaken by the enveloping prose, quietly blendingthe "superlative degree of comparison" present inDickens's opening in A Tale of Two Citieswith the seducing party-haze of wealth...
...woman was so convinced of the story'srealism that at a Denver reading she raised herhand and, looking directly at Golden, asked "Isthat you on the cover?" Golden chuckled in obviousenjoyment as he told this story at the Bostonreading and wondered aloud whether "it was me on agood day or a bad day?" He then added that thename of the supposed translator was a pun,"Haarhuis" substituting for "whore-house" inrecognition of the darker side of the geisha'sworld. "Arnold Rusoff," far from endowing aprofessorship at NYU, is actually a dear friend ofGolden's, eager for his 15 minutes...
...Improv Asylum Theater is hosting a sketch comedy act by Ace Theatricals. "Hey, There is Free Food in the Conference Room," is a great way to fuse laughter into an otherwise dismal Harvard night. 216 Hanover St. 263-6887. 6 p.m. $7 cover...