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While Out of the Past is a rather comprehensive history, Miller makes no pretense of being an historian. He's a journalist who covered American gay and lesbian politics in the 70s and 80s and wrote the travel narratives In Search of Gay America and Out in the World, neither of which seeks the historical reach of his new book. In Out of the Past, Miller consolidates the work of other historians, journalists, sociologists and anthropologists who have been seminal to the burgeoning field of gay studies. There is very little original research, and that is fine--Miller...
SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN FIRST started to tear in the early '80s, music lovers in the West have been exposed to a number of previously unknown composers whose reputations were obscured by the rigid Soviet system, among them Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Shnitke. Now comes a man who may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, 59, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia...
...savior'' began to find his niche. He set up a yoga school that proved to be quite successful. Even if a former student recalls that in those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment. At this point...
...amid the horrors and suffering of the Great Patriotic War, in which millions died to defend the Motherland against Nazism. Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation, with the intent to obliterate all traces of "Slavic culture" from the earth. Why, in this time of collapsed...
...Elliot Easton and Jules Shear. The aim then was high concept, not high ratings: a return to unvarnished, straight-from-the-artist rock after years of high-voltage, high-volume entertainment. Says Unplugged producer Alex Coletti: "There were no tricks, no effects. It was a whole reaction to the '80s and the [disgraced lip-synching pop duo] Milli Vanilli mentality. We wanted Unplugged to be as straightforward as possible...