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Colin Newman

Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1981

"YOU CAN'T forcibly solve contradictions; you've got to allow them to work themselves out," says Colin Newman. What's a Colin Newman? Good question; he himself would have a tough time telling you. Newman and his work embody contradictions galore, and he relishes many of them, even as he "allows" them resolution.

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