Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Her music is still painfully insipid. Gimme Foxy Brown any day.
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See http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20041004/022805.html
Excerpt:
Among intellectuals (defined here as all who self-consciously use their mind, whether well or badly) it seems to me that for at least a century (perhaps millenia) a, perhaps _the_, major way of exhibiting Good Taste does _not_ consist in laying out what one _likes_ but in making clear what one _dislikes_. That is, Good Taste is displayed, regularly, by displaying one's freedom from its opposite, Bad Taste (in some circles, equated with vulgarity). One IS what one hates
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Carrol