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Musically, heavy metal has evolved somewhat, from a monotonous barrage of frenetic tempos and slashing guitars toward richer aural textures and even an occasional ballad. Metallica is typical of the metal bands that have renounced their raunchy roots and polished their music, if not their image. Gone are the crude lyrics and blaring wah-wah guitars that marked its sound in the mid-' 80s. Many of the tunes on Metallica could almost be called reflective, like Holier Than Thou: "Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue/ You lie so much you believe yourself/ Judge not lest...
Saddam Hussein, of course, is still in power. The average American is probably pretty confused by Bush's failure to eliminate the dictator of Iraq, the guy whose picture graces their Desert Storm trading cards. Bush whipped up support for the war with crude jingoism--now, those same jingoists are going to be disappointed by the mere liberation of Kuwait...
...strains in '20s French painting, Matisse and Derain, for example, find no place in it. And quite a lot of lesser art does because -- derivative or coarse though it sometimes is -- it has something to say about the pervasiveness of imagery. Much of Weimar-period German art is a crude mix of De Chirico and cartooning, but one doesn't object to seeing it here, although it quickly stales...
...long time ago, a young man bundled himself up in a weatherproof leather coat, shouldered a crude wooden backpack, grabbed a knife, a bow and an ax, and headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...
SUCH COMPARISONS may seem crude or facile. It is true that the politics of 1991 are not those of 1961. But the subtexts, the fundamental concerns, of today's and yesterday's anti-PC crusades are remarkably similar...