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...Swedish band, the Cardigans, it resides in the encounter of contrary instincts--the sweet, seductive purr of joyful music and the dark, cruel snarl of painful obsessions. Remember "Lovefool," the song from a couple of years ago that burst off the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and was suddenly, like the fixated ex-lover it depicted, lurking stubbornly everywhere you looked? Few songs have snuck a more subversive view of love into the frivolous dance arena of top 40 radio. You'd scarcely realize from the jubilant disco drums and the syncopated keyboard touches that the song was actually about wretched abjection...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cardigan's Latest Album is Swede and Low | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...Purr, Baby, Purr originally sold for $5.95. In its review, the New York Times said, "Some women who feel threatened by the Libs' more outre manifestations may take comfort from the book, if they can stomach its breezy prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...naive intern Monica Lewinsky. But a younger Lucianne Goldberg--Goldberg the writer--is the author of a work that Lewinsky could easily have used as a guide in her frolicsome thong baring. The 1971 book, co-written with Jeannie Sakol, is a 174-page critique of feminism called Purr, Baby, Purr, in which the authors advise women to "Stop Bitching! Be a Pussycat!" by exulting in their feminine wiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Alonzo Purr" remained significant for Gutman throughout his high school career...

Author: By Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Peek Into the Bookshelf and Back to Childhood | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...head mistress of my high school's sister school was named Liza Lee," Gutman said--the same name as an "Alonzo Purr" character, the ferryboat Liza...

Author: By Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Peek Into the Bookshelf and Back to Childhood | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

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