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...even more interesting than Reed's resurfacing was the concomitant new interest in the Velvet Underground. Considering the band's last studio project, Loaded, was released in 1970, loving the Velvets is akin to loving the dead...
...legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes...
Which didn't keep Velvets' pal Gerard Melanga and British writer Victor Bockris from penning Up-Tight, a comprehensive Velvet Underground bio. The Polygram/Verve label remastered the first Velvets album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and rereleased the second and third albums White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground, long out of print...
...greatest glories, its large-scale sculpture and monumental architecture, there is scarcely even a photographic hint. In all the exhibition, the only room that comes close to conveying a sense of the objects in context is a display of a 17th century royal tent, its rich, red silk velvet embracing more than 600 sq. ft. of space, its seven arches per side at once defining and opening an intimate chamber of carpets and pillows...
...Jane and Prudence, she is a masterly drawn comic portrait: a coolly calculating woman who hides her ambition behind the lowered lids of humble gentility. In this book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment...