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...perception of these incidents was difficult at the time; today, given the remove of history, actions and characters should prove less elusive to reader and writer. But the authors' overheated prose does more to inflame than enlighten. Exposure to their narrative style is an experience akin to sitting through hundreds of newsreels booming of "blood-spattered byways" and "hate-inflamed ravings." Moreover, Collins and Lapierre's uncritical admiration for things British creates the impression that colonialists were innocent victims, rather than coauthors, of India's ceaseless agonies. The land and its people deserve more than a series...
...analogy may be arguable, but the argument is stimulating. It may well be that Franz Liszt was the first performer to court-and then find himself victimized by-celebrity akin to that accorded a rock star. Adolescents swooning at his concerts; the rich, famous and equally gifted vying eagerly for his attention; sexual swag collected at every stop on his endless concert tours-it all fits with what we know about contemporary life at the top of the charts...
Those pictures had an aura akin to what I'd expect from the Hope diamond. No way they could have been taken in Texas. They were so crystalline, with a clarity to be had only in the absence of atmosphere, clouds, haze, light refracted and distracted. Literal remoteness was their essence. On TV we saw the human acts, so very simple--Armstrong saying nothing more than "just a little step for me, but you folks got a long way to go" and his pleasure in flowing slow motion. The human aspect was pretty much a not very well-scripted Wild...
...Patty Hearst's affidavit, if they actually occurred, could have changed her personality so completely that she would have willingly joined the S.L.A. and taken part in its violent crimes. Technically, Patty's main defense may be mental incapacity or coercion, but the plea would be closely akin to brainwashing...
Superficially, it is a typical story of New York life, maybe even a microcosm of the troubles besetting the city. That is to say. it begins in farce and ends in something akin to tragedy. A trio of amateur gunmen (quickly reduced to a very odd couple) ineptly, comically try to hold up a Brooklyn branch bank. At the finish, one of the befuddled but not entirely evil robbers (beautifully played by John Cazale) is dead, the other busted...