Word: sensationism
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They called her the Asian Madonna because, in the ultra-staid world of Hong Kong pop music, her boldness was not just a sensation but an affront. If Madonna was the Material Girl, Anita Mui Yim-fong was the Bad Girl. That was the title of her 1985 hit song...
You might say the same about Calendar Girls, which more or less truly tells the story of some middle-aged Yorkshire ladies who posed discreetly nude--flowerpots and craft projects cover the Xrated areas--to sell calendars for charity. They're believably edgy about stripping--maybe the camera won't...
When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a...
On Dead Cities, each inveterate drone and clunky snare forms a unique texture of a cohesive reality, resulting in perhaps the purest aural approximation of human experience put to record. The enlightened “In Church” recreates a Christian mass from organs, disparate choral fractions and a...
An inadvertent poke to the eye temporarily sidelined the first-year sensation at the beginning of the second quarter.