Word: gums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains to be seen, but the fact remains that this disc reveals levels of talent that even the most perceptive of critics would never have thought Lunch possessed. She fits together such divergent elements as no wave, big band torch singing, Nicoesque arch-gothic vignettes, and mid-'60s bubble gum rock as if they were somehow destined to coalesce. Without ever having indicated that there was anything up her sleeve--much less between her ears--Lunch has made a tremendous musical leap of faith that will force even the most diehard of critics to reappraise her work...
...George McCoy, a law-enforcement officer in Chicago, says, "I'm trying to find a house but it will take me ten years to earn the down payment." Ted Buchalter, a pharmacist in Beverly Hills, Calif., notes that "even the kids are complaining; inflation has pushed their bubble gum up to three cents...
...expense. From their mid-teens, skiers and speed skaters live nearly half of each year as expatriates, training and racing in Europe because facilities or competitors are not up to par in the U.S. Unheralded by their countrymen, they are idolized abroad, where youngsters collect their pictures on bubble-gum cards and the monied denizens of Alpine resorts ask for their autographs. A U.S. sports fan who can routinely tick off the starting outfield of the Kansas City Royals would be hard pressed to recognize America's heavy hitters at the Winter Olympics. Yet despite these drawbacks, a new generation...
Hugh Rogers, 20, lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does...
This combination of demonic and domestic is apt, since Le Gum, 50, has spent much of her life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction books, chiefly on the American Indian. The little girl turned into an avid reader and writer; her tastes in both ran to the exotic or bizarre. The first story she can remember completing told of a man who was eaten by elves. As her manuscripts began piling...