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...been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit America's Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard Klayderman...
...been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit the Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard Klayderman...
...ridiculous scene, for example, Gallimard makes policy based on the faux-exotic drivel Song has been feeding him, claiming to his superior at the embassy that "once you know Orientals, you realize they're secretly attracted to our Western ways." It's hard to see Gallimard as representative Western macho man; it's hard to see him as anything other than an idiot...
More importantly, Marius' behavior, both public and private, is egregious and entirely unprofessional. He has verbally abused preceptors in the presence of colleagues and students and fired two preceptors publicly while standing in a hallway. He has publicly referred to students by name and called their writing `drivel.' He has threatened colleagues, in one instance stationing an armed undercover police officer outside a preceptor's classroom to prevent him from teaching...
...made comments to me specificallydenigrating students by name," says a currentteacher. "He said what was written was 'drivel.'He reminds me of the Kingsfield character in 'ThePaper Chase.' He doesn't respond to students...