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...before Southern died). Further exploration of his small but influential body of work in print and on film is necessary if only to discover his dazzling inventory of effects. Certain works are dispensable ("Telephone," "Randy," the wonderfully funny but "high concept" novel "Blue Movie"), others are sadly unavailable (the elegiac, touching novel "Texas Summer," the low-key experimental "End of the Road," and the grimly funny "The Loved One"), while the seminal works are waiting to be experienced (or re-discovered) at local stores or through Internet vendors...
DIED. O. WINSTON LINK, 86, photographer whose elegiac shots mourned the departure of steam engines from American railroads in the 1950s; in South Salem, N.Y. He was found dead in his car outside a train station near his home. Link covered 2,300 miles of track on his journeys, later saying, "I was one man, and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could...
...grabby singles, but overall it's a more consistent work than the Wallflowers' last release, and a more emotionally daring one. "The first two records--I just wrote songs," says Dylan. "I didn't really think people were going to hear them." The music on Breach ranges from the elegiac folk of Mourning Train to the charging pop-rock of Murder 101 (with backing vocals from Elvis Costello). Dylan's low, dusky voice makes everything he sings seem like a shared secret; his songs are oblique enough to invite investigation but not so impenetrable as to resist understanding...
...disillusioned and the disoriented: a plastic surgeon in a fool's war with gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns to the theme of restlessness, rootlessness and confusion. On the ethereal jazz...
Thomas believes Bobby's is "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Perhaps. Thomas every now and then falls into Camelot prose, the elegiac, mock-heroic blather about bright promise and fate and doom and how the gods have it in for the Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable...