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Queen Elizabeth II, who had been criticized for not crossing her arms to hold hands with her husband Prince Philip and Prime Minister Tony Blair for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" in the Millennium Dome, was vindicated Monday by the tabloid Daily Mirror , which said that arms are not supposed to be linked until the last verse of Robert Burns' poem, which starts "And there's a hand, my trusty fere [friend]."
For that reason alone, kd lang's Drag will prove a useful anthropological document, rounding up as it does some of the smokiest songs of the century, from "Smoke Rings," the old theme of Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra from the 1930s, to Steve Miller's '70s rocker "The Joker" ("I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker").
lang's great quality is that she can pull off even the most anachronistic trifle without patronizing it.
The socialist Lang trashed Rambo ; the conservative Jacques Toubon decreed that 40 percent of songs on the radio must be French chansons . I'm sympathetic to worries about being swamped by U.S. culture, armed as it is with theater monopolies, language advantages, and economies of scale.
But I suppose it is something of a triumph, which the publication of this book is meant to acknowledge, that black studies has achieved middlebrow status in the United States, that bourgeois people, both white and black, feel bad if they don't know something about the history and culture of African-descended people, in much the same way they feel bad, inadequate, if they don't know something about opera or a bit about Impressionist painting or if they have never seen a film by D. W. Griffith or Fritz Lang.
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