Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, February 08, 2003
Trekkiedom isn't just Star Trek fans; it encompasses obsessive-compulsives of every kind, though its ilk is most likely to be found overpraising pop culture. Here's a Phil Spector Trekkie quoted admiringly in Slate:
As Evan Eisenberg wrote in his marvellous book The Recording Angel: "[I]n its urgent solipsism, its perfectionism, its mad bricolage, Spector's work was perhaps the first fully self-conscious phonography in the popular field." Hence Peter Bart makes fun of movie-ad-blurb copywriters; they write this way. Too many news hacks write this way. They call it eloquence.
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