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| - | :''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' | + | # A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off. {{UK}} [[braces|Braces]]. |
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| - | "[[Wieviel Menschen waren glücklich]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX30orkOScQ&feature=related] | + | |
| - | is a [[1970]] musical composition interpreted by [[Hildegard Knef]] and released on [[Decca Records]] as the b-side to "[[Tapetenwechsel]]". | + | |
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| - | I'm cross-posting this from Facebook. It's a very [[sad song]] and I associate it with [[boudoir noir]][http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/boudoir-noir/] and [[dark cabaret]] traditions, along the current fad in [[music criticism]]: [[hauntology]]. Having been preoccupied with (the aesthetics of) death recently, see also ''[[Principles of an aesthetics of death]]''. | + | |
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| - | Hildegarde Knef, German actress, singer and writer, probably best-known outside of the [[Germanosphere]] for her interpretation of "[[Mackie Messer]]" and her performance in ''[[Die Sünderin]]'', was born in 1925 was 45 when she recorded [[Wieviel Menschen waren glücklich]]" in [[1970]] and it shows. | + | |
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| - | ''[[Swordfishtrombones]]'' is an album I wanted to write about for some time. It's my favorite [[Tom Waits]] album and in fact the only album by him I wished I owned. I bring up the album because it connects to [[dark cabaret]], a genre I wish to explore. | + | |
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| - | Two iconic images illustrate dark cabaret: the album cover to ''[[Swordfishtrombones]]''[http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg121/estd1885/Front-87.jpg] and the [[Charlotte Rampling]]'s cabaret scene in ''[[The Night Porter]]''[http://www.sheilaomalley.com/Rampling.jpg] [http://www.jahsonic.com/Nightporter.jpg], and here[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBdqGLtqFc&] in a Youtube clip. Note the [[suspenders]] both on Rampling and Waits. | + | |
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