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...while doing it. In thisprocess she latches on to the iconoclastic rebelfigure of her cousin, who tried to exorcise thesame Back Bay demons in his Life Studies asStuart is trying to confront in My First CousinOnce Removed. Stuart admits that she is notwriting a lyric masterpiece on par with any ofLowell's work, but manages in her genealogicalspelunking to be simultaneously funny, scathingand meditative about her life as a Winslow andLowell...
Guillory is also teaching English 90fw: "Renaissance Lyric from Wyatt to Marvell" this semester...
...inconceivable: a broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging, like a chance meeting with Burt Bacharach after hours at a chic London nightclub. Some might call this kitsch, but emotional immediacy and sheer musical complexity make the song...
...moment from the Starr report: "When I was hiding out in your office...I noticed you had the new Sarah McLachlan CD [Surfacing]," wrote Monica Lewinsky to the President. "Whenever I listen to song #5 I think of you." The tune, Do What You Have to Do, has this lyric : "I'm shaken/ by the violence of existing/ for only you./ I know I can't be with you./ I do what I have...
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA Eugene O'Neill's spin on the Greek myth turns up at the Lyric Opera of Chicago...