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...behind it all. The body-hugging velvet costumes. The name that isn't a name. The bizarre album covers. The man himself, whose name has been debated more than the gender of Pat on Saturday Night Live. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and Now Generally Referred to As Freak, has put forth a valiant effort in his latest major label album, but to no avail. He plays his own instruments, he writes his own songs (with the lone exception of a cover of the Sheryl Crow song "Every Day is a Winding Road"). but his extreme image appears...
...chalk some of this up to the Baby-Sitter Problem. Think about it. What kind of maladjusted, alienated, socially phobic loser would be available to baby-sit on the millennial New Year's Eve? Would you leave your kids with a misanthropic freak who can't scrounge up a date or a party invite on the biggest New Year's Eve of all time...
...warm-and-fuzzy intimacy of the recently designed service area clashes discordantly with the cavernous gloom of the Eliot House dining area. The dining hall does not integrate efficiency and intimacy but grafts the two onto each other like some ghastly sideshow freak. Any dining experience there is a fitful shift between discomfort and comfort, between Harvard and home...
...course, this too is fiction: a tribute to and ripoff of Nabokov. Pera gives Lo a younger brother, who died in a freak accident (tornado, live wire), and a lingering devotion to her dead dad, for whom Humbert is a sexier surrogate. Lo records scenes of innocent sapphic frolics, moviegoing (It's a Wonderful Life is about "how everything turns out right because the father didn't die after all") and quarrels with her bossy, desperate...
...perhaps Morris' most compelling device is the comparison he draws between celestial stars and Reagan. He describes how in cosmology, as in psychology, the freak convergence of forces creates a centralized whirl. Momentum enters a field of expansion--nuclear particles seek release, and a man longs to embrace something larger than himself. Morris' keenest insights into Reagan come in such poetic metaphors, and as such, the book has disappointed and awed different audiences. Those looking for a hard-core political history of the Reagan years would be advised to look elsewhere, as Morris' aim has always, and without pretense, been...