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What makes a medical journalist whose last book was Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977) spend six years writing a biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the definitive '60s trash trinity, Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills...
...hope that the FDO eventually works out the kinks in the prefect program. But I won't be around if they do. When I received my application for next year's prefect program, I took a long look at it and tossed it in the trash...
Fear shrouded the proceedings, and jurors' names were kept secret. Even so, a juror was excused two weeks ago after revealing that a relative had received a threatening phone call. Earlier, one defendant was found in a trash bag in Brooklyn, shot and bludgeoned to death. Another was paralyzed by gunfire on a crowded Greenwich Village street...
IMAGINE THE scummiest dregs of politics and pop culture accelerating into a putrid whirlpool that covers the nation and world with junkies, trash t.v., and half-witted--but brutal--bureaucrats. The population is smothering under a technicolor cultural vomit of drugs, shoddy food, and mind-numbing music. And it's all financed with government money...
...above catalogue, there is not a lot of stylistic unity on Invisible. The one constant on this disk is Hitchcock's bizarre sense of humor, which leads him to rhyme the word "spanner" with such unlikely choice as "banana" and "iguana." When the aim is scabrous, Hitchcock creates "Trash," a scathing put-down of the star-fucking mentality in rock and roll and an explicit tribute to Lou Reed's "Dirt." But at his most playful, he comes up with "Point It At Gran," a suggestion to a gun-toting assailant...