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...star pomp and artifice (or its embrace of flannel). From the spiked bracelets and studded belts of runway fashion to the recent reappearance of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee on the cover of Rolling Stone, there's a creeping nostalgia in pop culture for the old-fashioned rock-star myth in all its showboaty, leather-pantsed glory. "If you're going to stare at your toes and play guitar and look depressed, that's not going to cut it," says Avery Lipman, president of Republic Records. "It's important for artists to be stars." (Even the dirge-slinging Tool...
What's more, a series that asks the audience to help write it accepts the myth that TV would be better if it only responded more to its audience's wishes. The problem with too much TV is that it delivers exactly what the audience thinks it wants. Whereas great shows spring on the public something it never would have asked for: a sitcom making fun of the Korean War (M*A*S*H), a show about a Cuban band leader and his wife in the white-bread '50s (I Love Lucy) or a farce about the selfish exploits...
...early publications, for instance, was an article in Nation magazine entitled "The Myth of Chinese Communist Aggression...
...says she'll never concede to having a favorite among all her work, finding the question "a bit like asking a mama who her favorite kid is." However, she says the recent republication of Always Coming Home--a mélange of fables, poems, anthropology and myth--made her proud. She calls the work "a strange, personal book...
...Anthropology and myth, clearest in the stories of Always Coming Home, play a part in nearly all of Le Guin's work. Her interest in both writing and anthropology can be traced to her family. She grew up in a household with a famous anthropologist father, Alfred L. Kroeber, and a successful writing mother, Theodora Kracaw Kroeber, whose most famous work, _Ishi, Last of His Tribe_, dealt with indigenous American Indians...