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Martyrs Of Elitism

Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1986

ELITISM. DICTIONARIES call it "the sense of being part of a superior or privileged group." On the street, it's more familiar as hipnitude, or novelty. But the fact of it – cult status – is a definite form of past tense.

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