Word: tutti-frutti
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...deeply shocked and saddened by your decision to include the mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama, in your list of European Heroes. You praise his campaign to paint hundreds of buildings in the city in tutti-frutti colors, but the owners and residents were not even consulted and could not oppose the mayor's ukase. Is that your model of a political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were...
That kind of tutti-frutti exchange is invigorating. Now, however, pop has started feeding off itself in remarkable new ways. Sometimes the self- references are just lazy or parochial. On situation comedies, characters make jokes about other situation comedies. In Stephen King's fiction, a character in a quandary "thought of a cartoon character with an anvil suspended over its head," and a forest "seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." Then there are the stranger entertainments about entertainment, from the small army of Elvis impersonators to the TV game show Puttin' On the Hits, on which ordinary folks...
...safe from a return of the vanquished, often dressed as an avantgarde. Today spartan modernism has been surprised in its sleep by a postmodern taste for ornament and the revival of moribund styles. Partly as a result, some artists are garnishing the edge again. Trompe l'oeil frames, tutti-frutti borders and jigsaw-cut silhouettes are multiplying in galleries that not long ago featured only trim metal runners...
...Acres). Dolly tangles with her alcoholic ex-singing partner, who is also her ex-husband (as in Tender Mercies). Dolly teaches Sly to move country-style (as in the Let's Hear It for the Boy sequence from Footloose). Sly belts out Little Richard's rave-up Tutti-Frutti before an incredulous audience (as in another of this week's culture clashes, Top Secret...
...Americans still drink up 2.69 gallons of booze per capita annually and spend more than $30 billion a year on alcohol, but hard-liquor drinking appears to be declining. If yummy highs continue to be the vogue, liquor dealers' shelves should be loaded with creme de strawberry and tutti-frutti vodkas for some time to come...