October 10, 1994

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Rocking in Shangri-La

John Seabrook on the cultural influence of MTV and its music videos, which over time have moved from featuring musicians such as Culture Club and Madonna to Kurt Cobain and Snoop Doggy Dogg.

Seabrook in Kathmandu watching Western rock bands discover their audience has been there all along—globalization as pilgrimage, in both directions at once.

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Degrees of Cool

Anthony Lane

Everybody knows the old E. M. Forster distinction between story and plot: “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. Fair enough, but what Forster failed to foresee was the emergence of a third category, the Quentin Tarantino plot,

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