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...night on my flat-panel screen. In fact, since I upgraded to the new version, the one in the high-res body stocking, I've developed a bit of a crush on her. I love the way she spices up the stuff that's good for me with the trashier stuff I like to watch. The other night when I told her I wanted to check out this new service the fellows at work were raving about, she said, "I know you don't like to hear about international news, but before I take you to co-ed nude volleyball...
Fanny is an even trashier novel than Flying or How to Save Your Own Life (1977), but that's not the most annoying thing about it. With Fanny, Jong backdates her heroine, capitalizing every other word in a futile attempt to satisfy on a literary level. Acclaiming her creation as a "mock-eighteenth-century novel," Jong writes the 490-odd-page story from Fanny's perspective in a brand of English that defies historical classification...
...album includes two trashy re-makes of '60s pop songs, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard," the latter made for the still trashier film Tommy, itself a pathetic re-working of The Who's rock opera. Elton John's name did nothing for these ghosts from the past except make them sell. The originals were much better. Elton's willingness to perform them only showed that his fire was burning out. "Island Girl," an original, was among the most annoying of AM radio's most played tunes. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a vapid, iivv number...
...planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to the sidelines, these women and the liberal clergy sought power as guardians of art, literature and refinement. America's sentimental education began. Feeling became more prized than thinking. Popular literature grew trashier at the same time that magazine and book publishing was burgeoning. Narcissism flourished, and with it a greater appetite for the products and kitsch of popular culture...
...Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...