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...record set is a pretty ambitious undertaking and the Stones have always been at their best when least ambitious. The last time they overstepped their natural boundaries, they produced the relatively lousy Their Satanic Majesties Request, but then they followed it up with "Jumping Jack Flash," Beggar's Banquet, and "Honky Tonk Women." A Stones fanatic can only hope they'll pull themselves together after this current minor fiasco and prove once more that they are indeed the world's finest and most durable rock and roll band. I still cherish my collection of Stones records somewhat more than...
...complex and contradictory woman. She was also, even as legend has it, probably a virgin. Highly sexual, she was yet terrified of sex, which in her experience was associated with the death of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and of many of those she loved. "I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married," she once said. Paradoxically she was, in her own way, a very feminine woman who could go into a swoon on bad news...
...over a decade now, in nine books of fiction and nonfiction, Elie Wiesel (Night, A Beggar in Jerusalem) has been the dark poet of the Holocaust, a man brooding circularly upon the six million Jews who died in death camps. Now he has written a rich, warm book whose subject is religious joy, that mystical and ecstatic strain in Judaic history known as Hasidism...
...canceled the U.S. commitment to exchange dollars for gold, the values of several major currencies have been fluctuating, and uncertainty about where they would come to rest has held back world commerce. There was always a threat that in order to protect their own trade positions nations would erect beggar-thy-neighbor barriers against each other's goods and money...
Particularly fine is Brook's handling of the difficult scene between a now blinded Gloucester and his son Edgar, still disguised as a mad beggar. Not recognizing his son, Gloucester begs to be led to the cliffs of Dover where he would be able to jump to his death. Instead, Edgar leads him to the flattest of beaches, all the while persuading him that they are indeed scaling heights. Believing he is on a precipice, Gloucester leaps, only to fall harmlessly to the ground. Finally, convinced he has been saved by a miracle, he resolves to try suicide no more...