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8:11 JST 8/21/99 334 bytes
--- Charles Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "At a celebration for President Bill Clinton's
> fiftieth birthday, at
> Radio City Music Hall, in 1996, Simon, terrified of
> following Smokey
> Robinson, invited the entire horn section to let her
> have it. 'They all
> took turns spanking me,' she says, 'During the last
> spank the curtain
> went up. The audience saw the aftermath, the sting
> on my face. I bet
> Olivier didn't do that.'"
>
> Out Oliviering Olivier. Larry, the emblem of acting.
> What is Carly
> telling us? What pain is in performance? Carly adds:
> "the pain is the
> hierarchy."
>
> Canetti writes "Every command consists of momentum
> and sting."
>
> We hear the song, the performance, the show. When is
> the show about us?
> Are we so vain? The sting of the secret command
> swells our vanity. We
> are not spanked but witness the sting on the face.
> Our vanity grows. The
> show is for us. This is the hierarchy.
>
> Who spanks? Horn section, the backup, the "wall of
> sound" for casting
> the voice. The sting is transferred from sound to
> voice to ear, and the
> spectacle - the stage - is the tracery of the
> transfer. They let her
> have it and the audience sees the aftermath. How we
> wish the curtain
> went up a little earlier. Please let us share the
> scene, the scene
> before the scene. Spanking performance: Were the
> horns in hand? Did they
> blow as they beat? The secret performance that is
> the performance. The
> audience listens - whack slap - they wish they let
> her have it. Sound is
> drama of transfer is secret sting.
>
> And what of Bill Clinton?
>
d^Vizio
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