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Girl Crazy: there are lots of ways to skin a Salome. David cote looks at some of the more memorable takes on Strauss's high-strung heroine.(Critical Essay)
In art, shock value doesn't have a very long shelf life. One generation's cultural outrage is a kits& artifact to the next. Or else, the supposed breach in morals made by a work of art can in fact open the door for like-minded others, becoming the new norm. In movies, John Waters's seedy bad-taste farces have ceded to the mainstream success of the brothers Farrelly; the "obscene" passages in Joyce's Ulysses now seem tame compared with Chuck Palahniuk's stomach-turning Fight Club scenarios; and less than fifty years separate Elvis Presley's wayward hips from the perfunctory pelvic thrusts that pass for dance moves at Britney Spears concerts.
Yet Strauss's Salome ...
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