Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock music is that no matter how good they are, they cannot completely capture and transmit the important visual aspect of the music. Rock movies have become important because they are able to unite the visual with the musical, the sight with the sound, the spirit with the flesh...
...workers fighting with a small, tightly allied group of..."bosses." The songs say that the bosses must be smashed, but one gets very little idea of what "smashing the bosses" actually means, or what the world will look like when its all over. Few concrete images are offered to flesh out the conceptions of "bosses" and "workers." Such a spare framework of slogans would seem appealing only to those who have already grappled their way into PL's model. Sometimes, as in "Talking Unemployment Blues," the mechanical attempt to attach specific images to that abstract model results in lyrics that...
...effect, American imperialism will be strangled as the arms and legs that currently feed it are cut off. Then Imperialism can't eat any more. He can't eat the blood and the flesh of people of Third World. He can't eat the blood and the flesh of Black people. Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans in this country...
These two complement each other well enough. Anybody who really cared could get some interesting formal things out of the two books together. You never know how this works out in terms of flesh and blood. But certainly Janice bringing Stavros back to life is some kind of counterweight to the baby's death in the first book. She too had to make a passage--go through something to return--to get back into bed with him. All that's there, I'm not sure that a third book could do it again--it would have to be a different...
...fiction--it regards fiction both in the space it gives it and the kind of reviews it gets as a pretty silly branch of the written word. I think, of course, fiction can say more things--it can contain ambiguity and it can show issues mixed in with the flesh and blood...