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...couple of the songs stretch all possible limits on credibility, such as the opening "There's a Rumor in St. Petersburg." Here, the peasants belt into a song that carries the dubious refrain "Since the revolution, our lives have been so gray." The staging itself doesn't have any delusions about its purpose: hundreds of Russian peasants drop their work, disperse from their bread line and take up synchronized folk dancing in one of the more laughable spectacles of the film. Yet Anastasia--unlike Pocahontas, for example--makes no pretense about adhering to history, and we accept...
...delivery of the last two songs on the album, which returned to the acoustic route. Her versions of Pete Droge's "Sunspot Stopwatch" and Peter Laughner's "Cinderella Backstreet," she laments, were "done a long time ago" and therefore "rough around the edges." It's a little dubious, then, whether a full-length band album can successfully maintain the sincerity of Mary Lou Lord while integrating studio production elements...
After hearing Feliciano speak at the Village Voice bookstore this summer, I was intrigued. It seemed likely that the same country which housed the Vichy regime and waited 50 years before apologizing for its dubious wartime behavior could well have been cagey in its dealings with Nazi-looted...
...Make something up. When Kennedy appeared in public with a soft cast early last month, each tabloid came up with a different explanation. The Star reported that he had fractured a bone while paddling his kayak on the Hudson River. The National Enquirer made the highly dubious claim that John-John broke his bone by pounding on his desk in an argument with a staff member at George. The Globe made a bold ratings grab by saying it was most likely he'd had a Moonlighting-level fight with his wife that had resulted in a severed nerve. Kennedy later...
...considered the international ideal, we don't get a very good impression of these supposedly pampered royals. We even think that they, arriving at their position purely through birth, live a life of decadent leisure. This is especially the case with monarchs-in-exile or with aristocrats with dubious origins and even more dubious professions...