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...album's best songs, Heartspark Dollarsign, Alexakis sings of having an interracial affair and rejecting one's racist past. The song's video was directed by Larry Clark (his name was removed from the credits after an editing disagreement), the man behind the controversial, nihilistic movie Kids. "I didn't see Kids until after the video," says Alexakis. "It offended me as a father." Clearly, this is a rocker with adult concerns, and this mature album proves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT KID STUFF | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

When Publisher Hearst was a Democrat, Cartoonist Powers invented his famed figure, the "Interests." It was his pen also which identified the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna with the dollarsign. This year the "Interests" have been cleverly brought back to suit the shift in Hearst politics and, between them, the Messrs. Powers and Brisbane have personified the present-day Democracy as a female donkey called "Diamond Lil." They took the name from a play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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