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...cacophonous,” “bizarre.” For Palin, they’re the sounds of home. Welcome back, Sarah. Someone tell her to get some braids and she may have a shot next year. 1. “Chinese Democracy??—17 years and $13 million in the making, Axl Rose’s white whale should have been at least one of the horsemen of the apocalypse. What we expected were the sounds of angels giving birth to devils and devouring one another. What we expected were the sounds...
...another chapter in the fraught, complex history between the two nations, paying full attention to conflation of religious and national identity. To dumb down and repackage this struggle as one between radical Islamic terrorists and the peace-loving citizens of “the world’s largest democracy?? is to deny this complex history, lower the level of discourse, and ultimately justify bad decisions on the policy-making level...
...Slayer would have at least had fun with “Shackler’s Revenge,” a ridiculous approximation of thrash metal. Rose and Caram Costanzo produced the album, apparently doing little more than turning up the volume on every track. “Chinese Democracy?? is so loud it makes Slipknot sound sedate. Even for the masochistic soul who would endure volume levels high enough to discern any musical detail, the payoff is only in the pain. If democracy does come to China, I hope the revolution isn’t so gruesome...
...mushroom cloud was the symbol under which the mid-20th century was baptized. As the last great global tumult, the Second World War represented the convergence and the stratification of ideologies. But what hoisted itself above all of these intersecting faiths—above fascism, communism, capitalism, democracy??was the ambivalent shroud of dust and ash in which mankind could glimpse a vision of its own destruction. To watch footage of the atomic tests—the grainy, bird’s-eye view of a seemingly endless geyser of particulate matter—is to understand...
Sinduhije, along with the 36 other founding members of the Movement for Security and Democracy??a new opposition party sympathetic to both the Hutu and Tutsi citizens who live in the country plagued by civil war and ethnic violence—was arrested on Nov. 3 for criticizing the president in a document found in his home, according to the global organization Human Rights Watch...