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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Angsty Young Man
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 69
- Angsty Young Man
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- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Military prep schools don't necessarily rigid, repressed
- young men make. Meet HENRY ROLLINS, product of a Washington
- naval academy turned punk rocker-poet-pro raconteur. Recently,
- Rollins has been grunting and griping his way into the
- mainstream (ambivalently, perhaps: "I'm not into being famous")
- with monologues that take a power saw to modern culture and hack
- it into big bold bits of absurdity. What gets a savage cut?
- Drugs, airports, hatred, undeservingly hyped pop singers (Paula
- Abdul, "She needs help"; Edie Brickell, "an agent of Satan").
- There's plenty of moving self-therapy too. When Henry talks
- about his troubled childhood in an effort to "exorcise the
- demons," audiences remain in rapt silence. But he'll joke, "I'm
- a guy from an average middle-class dysfunctional family. I had
- three meals a day and underwear." Well, now he also has a new
- CD, all spoken word, called Rollins: The Boxed Life. Think of
- it as Rollins: The Boxed Strife.
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- </body>
- </article>
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