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The Metalinguistics of Subjectivity: A Review of Benjamin Lee's Talking Heads
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The Metalinguistics of Subjectivity: A Review of Benjamin Lee's Talking Heads Benjamin Lee, Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997; ISBN 0822320150). ix + 376 pages with Index.
Benjamin Lee's Talking Heads seems less than aptly titled, even granting that the subtitle, "Language, metalanguage, and the semiotics of subjectivity," provides a better clue to its main problematics, though even here, this goes only so ...
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Harrison tours without Talking Heads
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK During the past few years, waiting for a Talking Heads tour has been like waiting for a Rolling Stones tour: Everyone is ready except for the front man, so another year passes without a road show. Four years have passed since Talking Heads last toured. Preserving one of those concerts on
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Talking Heads refugees face life after Byrne
Chicago Sun-Times
; If there is anything new on this new-wave nostalgia tour, it'll have to come from the combination of Jerry Harrison and Tom Tom Club. Officially known as the "Escape From New York" tour, the package that will play the World Music Theatre on Tuesday also includes Deborah Harry and the Ramones. In
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Books: Ordinary people, extraordinary lives; The Complete Talking Heads. By Alan Bennett (BBC, pounds 12.99). Reviewed by Simon Evans.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Although conceived as television monologues, the two series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, gathered together in this single volume, read easily as short stories. All the characters seem to lead lives of quiet desperation and most hide a dark secret, whether it be the alcoholic vicar's wife in Bed
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Why Talking Heads' genius still speaks for itself.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: DAVID BENNUN The arc of the career of Talking Heads is almost perfect. It rises, as though from a high springboard, through their first four studio albums to an improbable apex. Then it descends through the next three via whimsy and pastiche, before throwing the curve with a slight upwards
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`This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century,' by David Bowman; HarperCollins.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Like their contemporaries The Ramones, the Talking Heads are significant in music history less for the volume of their own album sales than their influence on the rock genre. Those fans who were familiar with the band's music devoured every scrap of information about them, and they compose the same
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Get reacquainted with Talking Heads
Jerusalem Post
; David Brinn Jerusalem Post 12-07-2004 Headline: Get reacquainted with Talking Heads Byline: David Brinn Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 24 Tuesday, December 7, 2004 -- TALKING HEADS The Best Of (Hed Artzi) You might ask yourself - isn't there already a plethora of Talking Heads career
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Poignant, comic talk comes from `Talking Heads'.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Theater)
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; In Talking Heads, a series of monologues written for British television in the late 1980s, playwright Alan Bennett displays a knack for mixing laughter with short, sharp arrows to the heart. The Bennett method in Talking Heads is to lure the audience into stories of ordinary lives that grow rich
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Still Making Sense; He came from Dumbarton and ended up in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, with stints in New York and therapy along the way. Stephen Dalton talks to David Byrne about Talking Heads, September 11 and new hit single Lazy
The Sunday Herald
; DAVID Byrne walks in, casual as anything, and the room seems to chance colour. There's no entourage, no force-field of superstar charisma, no needy celebrity swagger. Just an untarnished 25-year legacy of punk and funk, global pop and egghead rock, art wit and multi-media subversion - all squeezed
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THE NAME OF THIS PLAY IS TALKING HEADS
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