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I think your initial premise needs more work, Ravi.
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After the first paragraph, I found myself asking, "Mr Franco, why should I care about your 'art'?"
I am still waiting for an answer.
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This is Toro, crawling across the ring to retrieve his mouthpiece in The Harder They Fall. When you're stunned, you go back to basics, like simple declarative sentences. And, like Toro, a celebrity is convinced he's Champ simply because everybody lays down for him.
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I always loved that ever since. It's great humor and done simply, and you have to use adjectives to make it work. I try and remember that.
"Ah, yass, Harry Truman, man from Missouri, as I am; that must be his own boat." - On the Road
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It's formatted as a 2,000-word film script that flashes backward and forward, and during which Bono refers to himself in the third person as "THE SINGER" (sic, all caps) with the ironic subtlety of a jackhammer tearing up the pavement.
Cobbled together from deeply metaphoric constructions such as "The black has devoured the blue," and "The bandmates found it darkly funny to imagine the papers back home carrying a photo of them protesting Mikhail Gorbachev’s great drawing back of the Iron Curtain," the message emerges:
Yeah, the fall of the Berlin was kinda cool and symbolic and whatever, but the fact that U2 was there to witness it blow-by-blow is what really propelled it into history books.
This shit was way over the top even for someone with Bono's messianic complex. One has to laugh..
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— Kim Kardashian, in Sunday's London Times
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Dr Dean Edell considers Oprah's program one of the most lethal threats to health and life in America today, and one of her prize guests is this particular blow-up doll. There are plenty of other fruit loop frauds, and Oprah will present them, right after this ...
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