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...friend of mine. Another friend, and my roommate for next year, was yet to come, so the two of us had the place to ourselves. Excepting the former tenant. A grad student at Harvard with a penchant for the bizarre, the psychedelic and the pornographic, she deserves a full essay dedicated solely to her. She stayed with us for the first few nights we lived at 386 B Washington St. #2, packing her stuff to take a long needed sabbatical to her home in New York City. My bedroom for the summer was to be her former workspace with...
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Further fine-tunings of what hipness might mean became an offhand intellectual pursuit of the '50s. In a commentary on his much discussed 1957 essay, The White Negro, Norman Mailer distinguished between the lower-class origins of the people he termed "hipsters" and the middle-class, college- educated, moralizing Beats. But he figured they both shared "marijuana, jazz, not much money and a community of feeling that society is the prison of the nervous system...
...Riding Hood, which was also the source for Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is vintage Avery -- a hilariously precise essay on the elemental impulses of desire, hunger, revenge and infantile mischief-making. It offers a smart introduction to a popular artist who used warp-speed motion to plumb dark emotions and who created some of film's most anarchic, surreal, fall-down-funny visions...
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