Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.[2] Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing[3] and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as...

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The selections of this book are classified according to the following topics: Bus and Beasts, Levitation Practice, the "a" s, Words & Allusions, Landscapes, Bananas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "woman and heart," e.g., Woman who held her heart prisoner, Woman whose heart had a mind of its own, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "man and heart," e.g., Man with a heart of gold, Man who juggled the hearts of others, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known advice given in astrology charts and fortune cookies; the texts are presented in a concrete poetic style, e.g., Today everything will seem LARGER than life, WARNING: There is a long road ahead of you, travel lightly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rubber balloon incorporated into cover design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kenny Goldsmith provided a punctuation poem on the inside back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of typed phrases reminiscent of Jenny Holzer's approach to art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.