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Rock in the androgynous zone
(Life, 1971-07-30)

The advance publicity for Alice Cooper almost turned my stomach. The pictures showed a kohl-eyed queen, cadaver face framed in a rat's nest of teased black hair, camping it up a whole warehouse of lurid props, everything from a boa constrictor to an old-fashioned mission-oak-and-leather-strap electric chair. The advertising copy was the usual I-can't-see-anything-wrong-with-it palaver about "contemporary theater" and rock as "total experience" and the wonderous fact that we all have male and female traits. After surveying the whole hyped-up spiel, I concluded, "If that's where it's at, who need it?"...

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