Word: villone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have readers," he once lamented, "but thousands of voyeurs." He might have added that it was he who raised the blinds and staged the spectacle -- a rabbity-looking thief rhapsodizing about transvestites and jailyard toughs. Not even the revered felons of French literary tradition, the poetes maudits from Villon to Rimbaud, had been so devoted to the triumvirate of personal virtues -- thievery, homosexuality and betrayal -- in Genet's great novels. First the French, then the world, couldn't tear their eyes away...
...eccentricity is so wide- ranging, so continually renewing and surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...