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Other G-7 members, and even some Russians, fear Western aid will largely be wasted, disappearing without a trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...
...television cameras and spoke in measured tones for 25 minutes. There was no mistaking the import of his words. He was taking the heady, reckless gamble of plunging Russia into a struggle for power as fateful as the one begun by the earlier coup attempt -- and probably even more chaotic...
...obviously, "the end of history" has a dark, chaotic side. The collapse of the binary cold war configuration has produced an unstable, free-form arrangement of forces and impulses loose in the world, often traveling forward or backward at high historical speed. The world moves along a double track, tending toward one extreme or the other -- toward economic internationalism and electronic interpenetrations, for example, and at the same time toward monomaniacal nationalisms. Toward intelligent tolerance on the one hand and toward irrational religious tribalisms on the other. The trouble is that the dark side tends to gain when fear...
...apparent lack of plot or obvious structure reflects the chaotic state of the warring countryside; everyone and everything seems diseased and incoherent. From this madness gradually emerge the stories of a few local families and their amorous and violent intertwining histories. The main storyline, if it can be called that, concerns the killing of Lion-heart Gamuzo, and the later death of his murderer. The narrator is obsessed with the particular mazurka that Gaudencio Beira, the blind accordion player at the local brothel, performs only upon these two occasions. Gaudencio's widowed sister, Adega, contributes her recollections and opinions...
Edwards' lyrics on that song underscore a major point of Perverse: people, with all their complexities, are increasingly confused as the world has become chaotic. The pop-music scene is also chaotic, as trends come and go. By breaking from the pack and making the radically different, high-tech Perverse, Jesus Jones has taken that trend and advanced...