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...dinner in Manhattan, Stacks was unable to attend because of a previous engagement: he had flown to Des Moines for three days of watching George Bush beat the bushes in Iowa. Despite all the arduous travel involved, Stacks takes special pleasure in campaign reporting. "Politicians are sometimes silly, sometimes banal, frequently self-serving and occasionally absolutely unbearable," he says. "But they are just as often earnest, serious and creative in proposing solutions to the problems the nation faces. In an election year, there is no better assignment in journalism...
Buckingham is, without doubt, the group's central figure and the moving force behind its latest effort. He wrote many of the songs on Tusk and is the lead singer in most of them. Buckingham's melodies best fit the Fleetwood Mac mold, with painfully banal lyrics such as: "You can love your brother but you can't walk out/someone ought to tell you what it's really all about." "That's all for everyone/that's all for me/I just need someone to satisfy...
...travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
...skeptic who contemplates Mailer's labors in orchestrating all these interviews is tempted to think that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Typing. But Mailer does not work stupidly; the flat, banal voices mustered here soon become haunting. The book is like an immense issue of the National Enquirer being endlessly explicated until it is forced to yield some truth. Gilmore's story is a sort of immense white-trash saga; he accomplishes his victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even...
...SONGS seem to go on forever, mostly because they do go on forever--songs on the first side average close to five minutes. Some, like "Rock Lobster," have a good hook, but a good hook can't sustain a seven-minute song. Some are simply horrible, forced screaming and banal lyrics and a fascination with the specious. Consider this, from "Dance This Mess Around...