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Ray's works--including portraits of him masturbating and a fiberglass re-creation of an auto wreck--are faulted for being self-referential, overly clever, and emotionless.
I do have one more somber thought, though, because I really am troubled about this, even though I can see no way to let off even a tiny rant without personally contributing to the very problem of which I speak: I do believe the press, and in particular the broadcast press, took leave of its collective senses last weekend when that little plane disappeared--surely not the first time such a thing has happened, but I am afraid that the net result, following day after day of relentless, nonstop, overblown, breathless, self-referential, nearly entirely content-free coverage, has been the transformation of a single publicly shared tragedy into something venomous.
"A narrative as obtuse as a tax form" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Others praise its stylish, dark colors; terse dialogue; and self-referential humor.
His obituary for Mad artist Antonio Prohias in the New York Times magazine was, for a tribute, unbearably self-referential (two paragraphs discussed Prohias, the other five discussed Spiegelman).
In what may be the ultimate postmodern self-referential auto-commentary in contemporary popular culture, Mak begins "" with a radio phone-in in which the host is discussing 2Pac's previous record, on which the rapper taunted the Notorious B.I.G--who he believed had a part in his 1994 shooting--with a reference to Mrs. B.I.G.: "I fucked your bitch, you fat mutherfucka."
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