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...bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods. Two of its songs, Le Grind and Dead on It, are explicit, sometimes monotonous odes not to sexual pleasure but to sexual conquest. On Bob George, a well-armed drug dealer kills his girlfriend after learning she's cheating on him ("I'm the one who pays the bills," he says), then holes up in his apartment and shoots it out with the police. The album is not relentlessly dark, however. When...
...talk about a man who knew what he wanted out of life. He also knew how to get it: after the tribal leader known as Temujen was crowned in A.D. 1206 as the Mongols' Genghis Khan -- "emperor of all emperors" -- he waged nearly continuous wars of conquest against his neighbors. By his death in 1227, Genghis Khan ruled most of the lands between the Sea of Japan and the Caspian Sea, an empire that encompassed two-thirds of the known world and far eclipsed the celebrated realms of Alexander the Great. To those who were overrun by the Khan...
...field for a while. Once during a lunch with a reporter, Simpson asked the restaurant hostess to put money in the parking meter next to his Mercedes convertible. She complimented him on the car. He offered her a ride, and off they went to a condo. Recounting his conquest later, he said with a laugh that he got her back to work in time for cocktail hour...
...that ever happens, it may be impossible to prove or disprove Sudoplatov's allegations conclusively. His recounting of his career is, after all, the oral history of an old and hardly admirable man, a product of the intrigues and maneuvers of the Stalinist era. As the eminent historian Robert Conquest says in his introduction to Sudoplatov's book: "Individual reminiscences must, indeed, be treated critically -- but so must most documents. Both are simply historical evidence, none of which is perfect, and none of which is complete. Even in the spate of documentation now emerging in Russia, Sudoplatov's evidence...
...sets so detailed that they looked suitable for a CinemaScope film. With their marble pillars and faux Titians, Michael Yeargan's new designs are nearly as lavish, but they are more subdued, allowing director Elijah Moshinsky to personalize the drama. Otello clutches his head in pain after his triumphant conquest of the Turks in Act I, prefiguring his complete moral and physical collapse two acts later; Desdemona tenderly but gingerly strokes her husband's face at their reunion, her love already mingled with fear...