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Standing at an angle to his performances, leaping from style to style, manipulating his physical appearance, Elvis gave the impression of a man enduring beyond whatever external conditions fate pitched in his path. He gave the impression, gesture by gesture, of having come, or run, a long way - he was...
And this Aug. 16 is the 25th anniversary of the King's death, a commercially overdriven event that's sure to set off a howl of commentary about the King as American tragedy, as vulnerable transgressive, as daring racial-boundary breaker, as revolutionary synthesizer of musical styles, and on and...
Of course, in America, the past is always waiting in the wings. It's like that old boyfriend or girlfriend who won't go away. On Broadway now, you can see The Producers and The Graduate. (It used to be that only film stars returned to theater on the Great...
Though the stubborn presence of the past is all around us, Elvis is the only cultural icon to have inspired a passionate denial of the fact of extinction. Perhaps this is because his career died without Elvis himself actually expiring, and collective memory has woven into the fabric of myth...
For the ardent, the living death of Elvis' sad decline might have supplied paradoxical proof of supernatural powers, but the strongest evidence of the King's capacity to outwit the Grim Reaper lies in Elvis' art itself. He outwitted - outlived - the heartbreak he sang about even as he sang about...