| For those who prefer the less tasteful: Vega's more recent album 
and this morning's New York Times:
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Note the story on the July 11 death of boxer Arturo Gatti in Brazil, apparently possibly not [updates of July 18 and 30] at the hands of his wife, a former exotic dancer. Connoisseurs of tasteless prose will appreciate the following: "Vega writes from a perspective of memory and maturity... applying a musical Brazilian wax to 'Pornographer's Dream'...."
-- Review of Suzanne Vega's album "Beauty & Crime" by Don McLeese
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| In honor of William York Tindall (yesterday's entry):
A Literary Symbol for Boyne Day
Mary Karr was "an unfashionably bookish kid whose brain wattage was sapped by a consuming inner life others didn't seem to bear the burden of. I just seemed to have more frames per second than other kids."
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