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Re: (TV) Christgau reviews 'around'



I do not understand why Christgau's syntax is so tortured. It's so arch and forced after reading it I end up hyperventilating.
   
  M.

Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com> wrote:
  Once again I find Christgau's prose just about impossible to READ. Halfway 
through that first sentence and I've already gone glassy-eyed.

I know, I know: Pot, meet kettle. But still.

Ty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stephen wilson" 
To: "Marqueemoonlist" 
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: (TV) Christgau reviews 'around'


> 'The Dean' weighs in with some Consumer Guidance...
>
> "Aficionados will find plenty that signifies in the context, if not in 
> the overt formalism and serious soundtrack jazzbo chops of these sixteen 
> lower-case titled instrumental gee gaws. Unreconstructed punkz and hip-hop 
> wannabees may plump for the former, but in the end it's all about being 
> on-the-one, and me, I'm just waiting for that set of C&W drinking songs I 
> know he has in him. B"
>
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