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...please don't characterize any of these activities as obsessions. The word has that connotation, you know: zealous, pathological--dare I say it?--nuts. This, undoubtedly, is why Robert A. Caro abjures it; says, instead, that he has spent the past 27 years writing his monumental 1,000-plus-page volumes on the life of Lyndon Johnson, with many more years in both his life and Johnson's to go, because he is "interested in how power works." Interested, indeed. Captain Ahab was "interested" in Moby Dick. "Between love and madness lies" Calvin Klein's "Interest...
...gauntlet between stodgy remakes and retro-cool from rock’s heyday. On the manic “White Hands,” lead by a frantic bass, Hayes challenged with true rock and roll sneer: “Jesus, when you going to come back?/ Jesus, I dare you to come back.” The highlight of the evening was the swaggering single, “Spread Your Love” which built from its inflated Beatles conceit to a grinding, howling climax. Black leather and dishevelment are back...
Mostly it's the song. Can't Get You Out of My Head, written by former teen queen Cathy Dennis, is one of those weird pop miracles that pile on the hooks and dare you not to listen--it's catchier than Ebola. The rest of Fever is not unlistenable, just unremarkable...
Those are expensive loafers...He wouldn't dare put a bomb in Prada...
...Palestinian-held Bethlehem have taken to hiding by day in Manger Square, across from the Church of the Nativity, which sits on the place where Jesus was born, before venturing out to attack Israeli troops by night. The gunmen know it is the one place Israel wouldn't dare send its tanks, for fear of angering the world's Christians. The enemy's determination has dispirited Israeli troops. "We can conquer the whole West Bank with no problem," says an Israeli officer. "The question is, what do we do then...