MPCAD November 28, 1947: How do you make yourself a body without organs?

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>From "Boulez is Dead" by Jeff Talman:

          Perhaps at base we must ask the most necessary of questions. 
          Ad hominem attacks aside for this is truly relevant to the 
          discussion, the question remains: in extreme matters of taste, 
          style, elegance and refinement, can we trust a man with a 
          comb-over to preach to us of élan? No, I think not, though his 
          image is perfect as front-man for the hard-core Modernists. I 
          defy anyone to name one with comb-over of indisputable 
          refinement... it is impossible by sheer presence of the comb-over 
          itself. Images of Edgar Allen Poe perhaps come to mind for his 
          rather smallish comb-over, but this should much more be 
          considered in terms of an all-over scruffiness, not a personal 
          dissembling of appearance, not outright if rather poor 
          deception. On the other hand, the noble bald is to be believed: 
          Gandhi, Shakespeare, Churchill, Toscanini, Yul Brynner, 
          Patrick Stewart, Isaac Hayes, even everyman Telly Savalas. 
          Clearly Boulez is not of this class.

http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2000/03/embid6.htm