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...first we read. And, while many of its aforementioned companions have since been let off the hook, parents and educators have continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious?? as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...tley Crüe, even in its prime, was glam-rock without the glamour of KISS, aspiring punks without any of Sid Vicious??s anarchic roar, and pop artists lacking the likeability of Aerosmith or Duran Duran. They were the poster children for bad boy rockers, head-bashers and unrepentant drug addicts. So what do mediocre poster children do when they turn around and realize they, indeed, have kids of their own to feed? Naturally, they release a bloated greatest hits double CD, promoted via a tour reuniting the original four members for the first time since...
...Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Superficial parallels were quickly noticed—Cobain and his loudmouthed peroxided wife, Hole front-woman Courtney Love, were habitual heroin users; Vicious and his notorious bleached-blonde companion, Nancy Spungen, were also well-known junkies. Cobain and his wife even checked into hotels under Vicious?? real name, John Ritchie. Still, the most common association made between the two musicians was their inability to deal with fame—Vicious and Cobain were both characterized as “lost souls” who were unable to reconcile their love of their respective musical...
Cross, through repeated, systematic analysis of his subject’s words and actions throughout his life, proves that Kurt Cobain was truly different from Sid Vicious??that despite his claims at the end that he could not handle fame, what Cobain truly despised was the increasing lack of control over his art and his life that accompanied Nirvana’s rise to superstardom...
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