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Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats
Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats
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2015-06-24
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Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats had in mind when he wrote of a friend’s lost son: "What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?"
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Still,the global outpouring of grief and craziness of public attentionfocused since Thursday on Jackson’s death is an acknowledgment not only of his popularity but of the reach and influence of America’s most successful export: popular culture.
Jackson was an icon and, in the end, perhaps, a prisoner of that now all-pervasive, world-encompassing force.
American popular culture’s triumphant appeal around the world is the product of several forces: First among them is this country’s historic dislike to assigning distinct values to high and low culture.【F2】
Some would say that a fair playing field has opened high culture—literature and classical music, for example—to a valuable interaction with popular media and made it more vigorous by forcing it to compete for its audience.
The real strength of American popular culture, in fact, is its democratic impulse—a willingness to take into account the reality that, for most people, entertainment is an end in itself.【F3】
American entertainment bows to what economists call "consumer sovereignty," and Jackson’s popularity, with its demonstrable impact on music, dance and fashion, was a clear example of that.
On cable TV and on newspaper websites, it was all Michael, all the time.【F4】
So, how did a pop singer heavily in debt and desperately hoping for a comeback, one who was best known for his bizarre life, obsession with cosmetic surgery, become in death the most beloved media figure since JFK?
To understand, you need to go back to that all-conquering popular culture. America’s serious news media—whether print, broadcast or cable—are in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. Embracing popular culture and its icons seems somehow remedial on several levels: It appears to address chargesthat seriousmedia areelitist,as well as themanifest indifferenceof younger readersand viewers to conventional news.【F5】
Then there’s the fact of simple, cruel commerce: popular culture in the form of film, music and TV now provides an outsized share of the financially strapped media’s advertising revenue.
Finally, there’s that source of the news media’s anxiety and confusion—and that great enabler of popular culture—the Internet.
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那么,到底是什么原因让这个流行歌手之死成为继J.F.肯尼迪之后媒体竞相报道的热点对象呢?要知道他生前已负债累累且亟待东山再起,而其荒诞不经的个人生活以及对整形手术的沉迷也早已使他声名狼藉。
解析
singer后面的修饰成分特别多,直译为singer的定语显然是行不通的。可以先译出句子主干how did a pop singer become in death…,再把这些修饰成分处理成几个简单句,放在主句之后,作为对这个流行歌手情况的介绍。
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