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...ROBERT A. CARO Lyndon Johnson biographer This President can get his Administration back on track only with a very deep type of political and governmental courage: the courage to admit that his most fundamental policies have failed and must be radically changed. With a scandal like Iran-contra, you can fire a man. That won't be enough here. The wounds are too deep. When a large part of the problem is a war, you really have to change the most fundamental policies. Iraq is wrecking George Bush's presidency. People said about Vietnam, You can't just...
...culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd is posing a more...
...joined by upstarts Five Star Outlaw, The Thickness, a?nd the Adam Sloane Trio. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $8. (CEJ)Monday, Oct. 31Bloodhound Gang. The Crimson does not condone anything the Bloodhound Gang does, including extraordinarily inappropriate uses of the NATO phonetic alphabet, but it will admit to having spent most of its junior high years listening to “The Bad Touch.” Opening are Electric Eel Shock, Program the Dead, and Cold Read. Avalon Ballroom, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. 6 p.m. $15 advance, $17 day of show. (BBC)Cover Bands Halloween Party...
...demolishes the mic, and promptly leaves. What could beat a whole album of such hip-hop transcendence? But after hearing the follow-up full-length “Dreddy Kruger Presents Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture,” listeners may be forced to admit that despite momentarily flashes of brilliance, the Wu will never return. The compilation comes off as a soulless, unfocused mixtape, scraping the bottom of the underground rap barrel.Why does this release deserve the Wu-Tang logo? It isn’t the flat, lifeless tracks. Could it be the absurd...
Warning: This column is intended to induce existential discomfort in the reader. And if it does, I must admit that I will be quite pleased!Why aren’t we all appalled by how many of us take our 17 years or more of education and sell it off to the highest-paying corporate bidder? Perhaps a few of us have excuses for such behavior, but it’s impossible to see the overall trend as anything but morally reprehensible. When you get down to it, the majority of us are coming from comfortable backgrounds and taking comfortable...