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At the Existentialist Café; Marie; Infinite Ground Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Café (Chatto & Windus) has a lot more heft than its breezy title suggests.
The 60-something pop-jazz singer can take a seemingly innocent song like "Charade," Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's breezy title tune from the 1963 Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn movie, slice it apart with her scalpel of a voice and reveal its essence to be a cynical, self-mocking statement about romantic game-playing and the difficulty of discerning truthfulness in relationships.
Instead of a breezy title, this year's exhibition by the curators Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack poses three philosophical questions, including: "Is modernity our antiquity?" The show — 120 artists from the Congo to Australia — takes an outsider's view of the commercial art world.
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Kaplan's style is distinctly breezier, with chapter titles such as "Officer, Arrest That Robot".
He plays nicely off his inspired title, saving the breeziest prose for matters of mane: "Bill North... wore a beard that so perfectly matched the thickness and shape of the hair on his head, it was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began," while some players sported perms that "simply made them look like high school math teachers who hoped to get lucky at the local disco".
But Sparks, Mark Simpson's short new opener, lived up to its title in its brief, breezy way.
The name is a nod to the breezy, Italianate character of its sister title, the phenomenally successful women's style weekly Grazia.
She zips from the dancey title track to the breezy electro-pop of the Max Martin-produced "First Love" to sticky hip-hop offerings such as "Acting Like That" and "I Luh Ya Papi" to torch ballads.
Of course it's really a critique of blithe submission: reconsider that withering title, which anchors a deceptively breezy chorus.
Chapter titles read as if torn from a breezy tourist guide: "Getting there" and "Beach life".
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