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Unlike Plath, who found eternal youth, those who shared her life have had to weather the ravages of time, not to mention public opprobrium. Janet Malcolm, the latest writer to mine the Plath myth, compares the spread of gossip about the poet to "an oil spill in the devastation it wreaked among Plath's survivors, who to this day are like birds covered with black ooze." No one has been more fouled by the Plath oobleck than Hughes. In The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Knopf; 208 pages; $23), Malcolm chronicles how generations of feminist writers have reviled...
...this country, is an old method used to make Blacks feel out of place where they feel comfortable and to feel ashamed of their race. Police harassing Black students for rapping in public is consistent with the way the white media criticizes rap music, a unique contribution of Black youth to popular culture. It's a degradation method. History has proven those methods to be effective in some cases. So, I guess white racists should be congratulated for their persistence and unyielding ignorance...
Elvis Costello shakes off the cobwebs with Brutal Youth...
They need not have worried. On the cusp of 40, Costello shakes off the cobwebs with Brutal Youth, a collection of 15 sinewy songs that marks his , reunion with the Attractions, the crack band that backed him on some of his best work of the '70s and '80s. Boisterous and piercing, Brutal Youth moves nimbly from caustic rock to hushed ballads, at times recapturing the brilliance of Costello's best days. "The twitching impulse is to speak your mind," he sneers on All the Rage. "I'll lend you my microscope, and maybe you'll find...
...consummated. "There are a few things that I regret," Costello sings. "But nothing that I need to forget/ And for all the courage that we never had/ I'm just about glad." While Costello can still rave with more venom than many rockers half his age, some of Brutal Youth's finest moments come when he exposes the wounds under his verbal armor...