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...electronica scene may yet catch on. It's booming in Florida (at least eight clubs have popped up in Orlando in the past three years); the sound tracks to the movies The Saint, Batman & Robin and 187 draw on it; major rock acts like U2 and Smashing Pumpkins are incorporating it into their sound. And there is some great electronic music out there. Morcheeba's Who Can You Trust? (Discovery) is a rapturous blend of bluesy vocals and electro atmospherics; Carl Craig's More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art (Planet E) is puckishly inventive; and The Rebirth of Cool...
...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...
...that people aren't sad, don't get kicked around, never die. It's that music can evaporate blue moods even as it atomizes them. The nostalgic poignancy of Griffith's Two for the Road hints at chances missed but also the pleasure of a longtime lover's company. Saint Teresa of Avila, a requiem for a childhood friend who killed herself, is addressed less to the dead woman or to those who miss her than to the saint who is expected to welcome her to heaven. Everything's Comin' Up Roses is a postmortem snapshot: "When I'm pushin...
...enough that raising campaign money for Bill Clinton has tarnished Al Gore's image as a saint. Now the question is, Will shouldering the President's agenda make him a political martyr...