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...perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody in the U.S. must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catchphrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...
...then Gardiner won the face off, and Cronan came straight through the slot and just pumped one in. The place went pretty ballistic...
...late Cubism is obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...
...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate ^ rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop Zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catch phrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...