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Water Coolers Redux: Dress Up, But Be Fashionably Late...
...here we go! But where? What is the purpose of a vaguely necrophiliac fuss over someone so recently departed? Most revivals take a generation or more, but Bernstein Redux has happened in less than the minimum time it will take for pitcher Nolan Ryan to go from retirement (this year) into the Baseball Hall of Fame (1998). Aren't we -- no offense -- rushing...
...this, we don't anything musically definitive to say about alternative music. It is a garb bag of everything from blissed-out synthetic psychedelia redux to grundge guitar bands and thrash. Truth be told, it's pretty ad hoc. The closest we can get to a description bears a striking resemblance to the Army Crops of Engineers' definition of a wetland: We'll know it when...
...MAHLER REDUX...
...SURPRISE notwithstanding, this particular issue of Peninsula would be easier to take if it were a screaming fundamentalist screed against filthy perversions, and a ringing endorsement of Thomism redux. Then we could dismiss the whole exercise as the produce of over-educated and socially nervous young Miniver Cheeveys, forced to live in a world and age neither of their making nor liking, and who unfortunately have their own private magazine in which to publish their tantrums...