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...Scottish musicians to produce an album and release 1,000 copies. The group, which was later signed to a British and then American label, have rapidly put out two LPs and four EPs (members in the band pressing two additional full-length albums as side-projects). In the quasi-fascist recording environment of label-dominated markets, this is almost unheard of production...
...Order's Bernard Sumner and Oasis' Noel Gallagher. Gallagher has worked with the duo before, but it's "Out of Control," the piece with Sumner, that's most memorable. Sumner's work certainly was another one of the Chemicals' influences, and to hear his familiar voice, his usual quasi-cryptic lyrics and a quintessential New Order guitar break over the loping hypnotic beat the Chemicals supply is one of the album's many high points...
...listening sessions"--90-minute round-table discussions on health care, education reform and the like--are meant to bore the daylights out of the press corps, driving them on to other stories, dousing the flames of hype, reducing the size of her pack so she can campaign in a quasi-normal fashion. Some 300 media types covered her kickoff endorsement at Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Delaware County farm last Wednesday, and the education event that afternoon began a war of attrition. Says an adviser: "It was fun to watch the TV cameras shut down and leave the room...
...sense, the quasi-religious mystique of royalty came full circle with Diana. Monarchy used to be based on divine right. But just as monarchy used religious trappings to justify its rule, modern show-biz celebrity has a way of slipping into a form of popular religion. It is surely not for nothing that an idolized pop singer of recent times so successfully exploited her given name, Madonna. One of the most traditional roles of religious idols is a sacrificial one; we project our sins onto them, and they bear our crosses in public...
...Tintin's fundamental ambiguity extends all the way to his sexual orientation. He never appears to have any close female friends (with the revealing exception of Madame Castafiore, a campy opera diva whose path he crosses several times). And to complicate matters further, he's constantly having quasi homoerotic relationships with young boys whom he befriends in foreign countries. Tintin's physical appearance is itself gender-ambiguous. What are we to make of his distinctive cow lick, which is neither particularly masculine or feminine...