84-3-406
But that too was a show. Behind it was a man who could not bear to hear that Elvis still surpassed him, or that Madonna had won a Grammy when he hadn't. He could force hard deals and millions of dollars out of Motown, CBS and Sony in face-to-face confrontations he could fire his manager and his lawyer, after years of service, without a trace of sentiment, for letting down the brand he could beat Paul McCartney to the Beatles' back catalogue and exploit it ruthlessly, despite their friendship. He performed for 18 years with his four elder brothers in the Jackson 5, the bouncing, grinning child from Gary, Indiana transforming into a global megastar, then left them as brutally as he had always upstaged them. But the family never left him. He blanked Joseph Jackson from his life and excised him from his face, but could not forget his father's exhortation to be "a winner, not a loser". Perfectionism, like distrust, had been beaten into him.
What show business required, he had also learnt, was to give the fans what they wanted. If they demanded fantasies, he would provide them. ("The longer it takes them to discover [who I am], the more famous I will be.") From the end of the 1980s he devised ever more headline-grabbing ventures: bidding for the bones of the Elephant Man, sleeping in an oxygen chamber, appearing in toyshops and galleries in garish wigs and moustaches. Dates were arranged with Tatum O'Neal and Brooke Shields to prove he was all man, rather than the shrinking virgin of his other public self. Two marriages were undertaken, three children vicariously produced.

A. 어휘
bear 견디다. surpass ...을 능가하다. force 꼼짝없이 하게 하다.
hard deals 힘든 거래. confrontation 대결. fire 파면하다. trace 아주 조금, 微量(미량).
sentiment 情(정), 감정. let down 위신을 떨어뜨리다, 명예를 손상시키다, 낮추다.
beat...to A. A의 자리를 차지하다, 설득시키다, 주입시키다, 사취하다.
back catalogue 현재가 아닌 과거의 카탈로그.cf. back=old.
exploit 이용하다, 사취하다. ruthlessly 무자비하게. despite...에도 불구하고.
bouncing 활기찬. grin 방글방글 웃다. transform 변형하다.
brutally 난폭하게, 야만스럽게.
upstage 자기가 무대 안쪽을 차지함으로써 다른 배우에 대한 관객의 주의를 빼앗아 가다, 불리하게 하다. blank 말소하다, 지우다. excise 삭제하다, 잘라내다.
exhortation 권고, 訓戒(훈계). perfectionism 완벽주의. be beaten into 주입되다.
headline-grabbing ventures 신문의 제 1면 큰 제목(표제)을 잡는 모험.
bid for 입찰하다. the Elephant Man 기형아를 주인공으로 하는 실화소설의 영화.
oxygen chamber 산소 방. garish 야한. wigs 가발. moustache 코밑 수염.
shrinking virgin 수줍어하는 처녀. public self 公的(공적)인 자아.
vicariously 대리로, 대신에.

B. 구문
- he could beat Paul McCartney . . . exploit it ruthlessly.
[잭슨은 비틀즈의 옛날 카탈로그에서 비틀즈의 멤버인 Paul McCartney를 지워버리고 자신의 이름을 넣어서 그것을 조금도 거리낌 없이 이용할 수 있었다.]
-[잭슨은 그와 4명의 형들로 구성된 Jackson 5에서 18년 간 공연하였고 그 동안 인디아나州 Gary 출신의 활기차고 방글방글 웃는 이 아이(잭슨)는 세계적인 슈퍼스타로 변형되었다. 그러자 그는 무대에서 공연할 때에 형들을 제치고 청중의 시선이 자신에게만 끌리도록 했을 때와 똑 같이 잔인하게 형들을 버렸다.]

84-4-407
Oddness overshadowed his real, hard-won achievements: world adulation for a black pop star, the birth of video celebrity, and millions of dollars given to black causes. If the press stayed on his weird story, he believed, his records would sell. The risk was that the weirdness would multiply until he was hardly human.
His last public appearance, before his death of apparent cardiac arrest, was to announce a series of 50 sold-out concerts in London. Hours before his death he was rehearsing for them, exuding joy, energy and sharp judgment. His glitter jackets, the tabloids claimed later, hid a body that was half-starved, subsisting on painkillers. Though he was worth $1.3 billion, said the Sun, he died with debts of $300m.
But he had sold 750m albums and, from Riga to Rio, children danced like him. In the words of his "Dirty Diana",

That's OK
Hey baby do what you want
I'll be your night lovin' thing
I'll be the freak you can taunt
And I don't care what you say
I want to go too far
I'll be your everything
If you make me a star.

A. 어휘
oddness 기묘함, 奇癖(기벽). overshadow 그늘지게 하다, 못해 보이게 하다.
hard-won 힘들게 이룩한. adulation 추종, 아부.
world adulation for a black pop star 흑인 팝 스타에 대한 세계적인 칭송.
celebrity 유명인사. black causes 흑인 운동(흑인을 위한 운동).
the press 신문방송. weird 기묘한, 초자연의, 무시무시한.
multiply 배가하다, 증대하다, 번식하다. apparent 명백한.
cardiac 심장의, 심장병 환자. arrest 정지. cardiac arrest 심장마비.
sold-out 賣盡(매진)된. exude (땀이) 스며 나오다. glitter 반짝 반짝 빛나는.
tabloids 타블로이드판 신문들. starve 굶어 죽다. subsist 존속하다, 살아가다.
the Sun 영국에서 발간되는 대중신문. Riga 북 유럽의 라트비아 공화국 수도.
Rio=Rio de Janeiro 南美(남미)의 브라질 수도. thing 놈, 녀석.
night lovin' thing 사랑하는 밤 친구. freak 괴짜, 열중하는 사람, ...광, 마약중독자.
taunt 조소하다, 욕하다.

B. 구문
- The risk was that the weirdness . . . until he was hardly human.
[위험은 잭슨이 거의 인간이라고 할 수 없을 때까지 그의 기이함이 증가할 것이라는 것이다.]