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...eyelash at his warrior - god face paint or the orange hairspray that set off the fire alarms). "They don't necessarily agree with me," he says, "but they know I'm not trying to hoodwink people." Cope has been confounding doubters ever since the Teardrop Explodes imploded in a fug of LSD and recrimination in 1983. Critics have found it all too easy to dismiss him as an acid - damaged jester who blew it. In fact, from his idyllic family home above Avebury, Cope has made a fruitful cottage industry of his cosmic obsessions and scattershot curiosity, recording scores...
...other expected hopefuls - Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, an eccentric Polish migrant with pallid skin and ears protruding like Duchamp urinals, is Australia's unlikeliest Oscar contender. Last month the fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome and testicular cancer before seizing the day as an avid...
What gleams on the surface in Furst's books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station. He puts us on the exact street where the Daisy Bar sat in Montmartre, gives us the heavy smell of an eau de toilette called Zouave. His stories rumble along in the dreary trains that seemed to be forever crisscrossing Europe...
Americans, it seems, have come full circle. It's easy to forget that as recently as 1948, Norman Mailer was still using the word fug in his novels. There may have been a sexual revolution - at least for those college-educated whites who came of age with John Updike's swinging Couples, Philip Roth's priapic Portnoy and Jong's Fear of Flying - but the revolution turned out to have a beginning, a middle and an end. "From the time of the Pill to Rock Hudson's death, people had a sense of freedom," says Judith Krantz, author of Scruples...
...continued to be raunchy but bad; we continued to take it on the chin. The former Fug proceeded to sing some songs: "Nixon Fucks Me" to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me," "Amazing Grass." from "Amazing Grace...