Word: paragone
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...brothers who can most directly embarrass the President. They often vividly demonstrate what else besides potential greatness is swimming around in the gene pool. To reach apotheosis in the White House, the family's paragon has progressed through a series of popular idealizations and magnifications ... and then here comes his brother capering after him, making faces, blowing bubbles, wearing funny hats. It spoils the illusion...
...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...
...Paragon Books: $8.95 paper, $17.95 cloth...
Unlike Reagan, Crane bills himself as the next presidential history teacher. And unlike Reagan, Crane doesn't stand a chance. The hard-rock Republican from Illinois is the paragon of the sleek modern conservative--more crudely, of the classical liberal. And some people know he's running for president...
Rachel Sweet: Fool Around (Stiff/Columbia) and Lene Lovich: Stateless (Stiff/Epic) arrive via England from that paragon of excellent eccentricity, Stiff Records, where these young women are not only la-belmates but exemplars of the two extremes of rock vocal styles, contemporary female division. Lovich seems to have tak en vocal seminars from Nico and Patti Smith. Her songs (many co-written by Lovich) are feckless threnodies about lovelessness, entrapment and alienation. Sweet, who is sunnier in disposition, lays down a sort of teasing, jailbait rock that relies on snappy melodies and gum-cracking sensuality...