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I think that what she has unearthed in grisly detail is the uniquely shallow, instrumental, and crass culture of Los Angeles (which I once heard described as "high school with money"), where looks, fame, and income compose the ranking rules for a truly wacky hierarchy.
Certainly it is no more grisly.
There's more musical invention in a song like "Trailways Bus" than in the entire score of the much ballyhooed Ragtime . It's nothing to do with rock vs. showtunes, only with the cruel truth that most contemporary Broadway music isn't very good: not popular music, not serious music, but existing in some grisly limbo in between.
Harris' hits were (as TV movies say) "based on a true story"--like his grisly ballad of an orphan girl asking the telephone operator to be put through to her dead mother, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven."
The article describes one such deployment in grisly detail: a special operations mission to murder American defectors in Laos.
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