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Montefiore's portrait of Stalin and his circle is a deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishment--scholarship as a kind of savage gossip, history as a grisly Barbara Walters special, its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts. It is a brilliant stroke, in any case, to describe Stalin and his immense crimes, the blood of millions, with the sardonic contempt and tabloid brio to which Montefiore's scholarship entitles...
...record, and maybe a younger Norah Jones fan, liking the single with Charles, will try to explore his back catalogue. It helps out both parties, but is rarely the kind of thing that makes for a good record, let alone the album of the year: Charles is doubtless a brilliant songwriter and an incomparable singer, but how good can an album be when each song features a radically different incorporation of voices? An album is a cohesive statement, a unified document in music: this selection as the best record of the year shows the way the award is consistently used...
...sympathetic to their plight—open debate and discussion with some of the most brilliant and distinguished people in the world can only be a good thing. If the Faculty wants to challenge Summers on his leadership style, they unquestionably have the right to do so. But to kick him while he’s down and use the public vulnerability the incident created to help themselves out is, to be honest, deplorable...
...think that the general consensus is that [Candide] is almost too brilliant for its own good, that each part outshines the other part so much that sometimes it’s a little hard to wrap your arms around it,” says Greenhalgh. “That’s all been leveled against it as a shortcoming, but actually I think it makes it absolutely fantastic...
...avoided island R. & R. because of a reputation for bad food and overpriced wines, there is salvation at Sandy Lane, the place in Barbados that made news as the location of Tiger Woods' wedding. Sandy Lane has the obligatory brilliant beach, spa, golf course, tennis courts and all the trimmings, but besides being a slice of paradise, it has a handful of interesting, on-premises restaurants and one of the few really decent, not totally outrageously priced beach- resort wine lists, as a recent spotting of the fine Picq Petit Chablis for about $50 confirms. From $700 a night. www.sandylane.com