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Free speech.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Free speech.(In the chute)

Article Excerpt
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IN 1981 performance artist and Illinois native Laurie Anderson had an accidental brush with mainstream fame when her song "O Superman"--a quirky, heavily synthesized, half-spoken rumination on technology-aided communication--became a surprise hit on the UK charts. It faded into the ether as quickly as it had appeared, and Anderson eventually dropped it from her repertoire (though David Bowie slipped it into his 1997 Earthling Tour). Bur then...



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