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...Miniato in Merchant-Ivory movies. To be a patheticist is to have more or less given up. It is to have made the discovery, always startling to the young, that parents lie, that politicians cheat, that moral authorities are hypocritical, that human society is one big sucking morass of dreck, and that you don't need to have much language, or be much good at using what you have, in order...
Even if the average Square-dweller has so far escaped some pimply outcast's displaced frustration, no one can avoid the hawkers of Square Deal and other useless pieces of paper. Clogging the already insufficient sidewalk space, they shove their worthless dreck into your face, screaming an annoying cant the whole time...
...come the best singer/songwriter to come out of Liverpool since, say, 1962 has nothing but a half-handful of U.K. hits to show for his 13-year career? Simple: Cope seems to have no idea when he's being a genius and when he's recording pretentious dreck. Well, thank God for anthologists. Floored Genius: The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes 1979-1992 does an admirable job of plucking the gems from Cope's spotty history. It's the best thing that could have happened...
Especially horrific is his idea for the artful equivocation, an example of which reads, "...It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg." Did this kind dreck get Carswell into grad school...
...fear: that she might end up as a regular on The Bold Ones. "My career was at a low point when I graduated," she notes, "but I couldn't let it go without a real push. Then it struck me that I wasn't going to do dreck," and she took roles in some eccentric good films (Siesta, Five Corners) and at least one ordinary bad one (Stealing Home). Then The Accused came along. Or rather, she stormed after it. The part got her the Oscar and a place on the actresses' A list. Only fitting: A is the grade...