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Talking Heads: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

Van Gosse, Village Voice, 8 June 1982

TALKING HEADS: TV shorthand, video argot for the small-screen dance. The words themselves give up little ghosts, conceptual bombs – media as alienation, the medium of alienation; the mediating alienation. In the case of this review, they've alienated me from my medium.

Total word count of piece: 764

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