London Times, December 28, 1981: Difference between revisions
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As he raced, transfixed by lurid green and magenta spotlights, through the familiar cruelty of the opening "Lipstick Vogue" it seemed that Elvis Costello had renounced the benevolent posture of recent months (expressed in ''Almost Blue'', his album of country songs recorded in Nashville) and returned to his earlier stage persona, which might well be summarized by borrowing Truffaut's description of Hitchcock: "The man we love to be hated by." | As he raced, transfixed by lurid green and magenta spotlights, through the familiar cruelty of the opening "Lipstick Vogue" it seemed that Elvis Costello had renounced the benevolent posture of recent months (expressed in ''Almost Blue'', his album of country songs recorded in Nashville) and returned to his earlier stage persona, which might well be summarized by borrowing Truffaut's description of Hitchcock: "The man we love to be hated by." |