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...Even harder to tell how to take what happens next: Iggy and his flunkies play "Raw Power," letting loose enthusiasm genuine and copious. Hard to criticize Iggy performing one of his great songs, and performing it pretty well. And there's the problem, I think. When Iggy was in the Stooges--before they became VH-1 "Behind the Music" material--the Stooges meant something. Sure they were a buncha high school drop-out glue-sniffing losers who made a hellacious garage noise with instruments they could barely play, but they had something to say. Basically: "screw you, I am human...
This approach is even more egregious in New York, which renders a hard-core town as easy listening. Besides the trademark pans of photographs and prints, Ric Burns uses copious aerial shots of the city, glimmering, filled with butterscotchy light--but lifeless. Through seemingly Vaselined lenses, however, a picture emerges from both these works of the long, fruitful tension between evangelical idealism and secular mercantilism. Ken and Ric Burns have managed to sing America. If only they wouldn't sing it to sleep...
Also, as an emergency measure, equalization of house facilities should begin with the padlocking of the copious common spaces in the Quad and Winthrop House, and every house's TV area should be made as dingy as Eliot...
...dining halls accessible for breakfast and lunch and the flexibility of a full week to move into our dorms--a consistently horrific experience that guarantees a few battle stories each year. Unfortunately, though, the horror stories from this year's move in will be a bit more copious than in years past...
Stewart's copious findings indicate that hospitals fired Swango rather than risk liability suits and damaging publicity. But such butt covering does not support the subtitle's alarmist indictment of "the medical establishment." Yet the need to buck up Stewart's new book with a sensational subtitle is understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions...