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...entourage. But Los Angeles' Continental Hyatt House, located on the Sunset Strip within minutes of no fewer than 32 record companies, has decided to take advantage of its location by welcoming-and indulging-pop musicians. The result, according to TIME'S David DeVoss, is that the garish, twelve-story hotel has become a psychedelic pantheon for anybody seeking a Woodstock ambience with a bacchanalian bounce. DeVoss's report...
...Saturday nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album plus TV. This all may be true, if "Texas Woman Blues" is any indication, it is. Mott the Hoople. Saturday, August...
...winos, drunks, and dope freaks. Some altered their lives drastically in order to present a new self-image--changing sex, tattooing a whole body, becoming a human pin cushion with sharp needles jabbed through cheeks, lips, and neck. Others hide deep beneath layers of sequinned veils, Halloween masks, garish sunglasses, or gobs of heavy makeup. Arbus's titles pinpoint exactly the accoutrements used to buttress egos--"A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, New York City, 1966;" "Blond girl with shiny lipstick, New York City, 1963;" "A woman with pearl necklace and earrings, New York City...
With time on his hands, Thompson, alias Raoul Duke, turns self-appointed investigator of the American Dream, as its garish trappings unfold before him in Vegas' nightclubs, casinos, and neonlit car-gorged strips. To assault this scene in a fitting manner, Thompson employs a personal brand of "gonzo journalism," opposed to professional journalism and characterized by the need for "intense, demented involvement" with the subject. Although it requires a much greater degree of personal involvement, gonzo journalism is akin to Tom Wolfe's style of reporting -- which evolved in one instance into "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" after Wolfe...
...movie opens with Beatrice's grimace at a department store mirror while she dons a platinum curled wig. She makes a garish picture--an aging belle whose talent for mimicry has twisted into selfmockery. She feeds on pipe dreams to bolster her comedy, but even these pile up to taunt her selfdeception...