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...goes further by equating women with the world. This is not an album about women, but an album about physics, as the thermographic pictures on the sleeve would indicate. When Henry Adams wrote about the dominance of the entropy principle in the 20th Century he was inadvertently writing a gloss to "Emotional Rescue." Jagger, in a less sophisticated way,sees the world the same way as Adams did, and St. Augustine centuries before. But where Augustine saw his rescue in God, and Adams nowhere, Jagger clings to his sexuality, to the idea of an "emotional rescue." His misogyny is merely...
...does not gloss over his failures, conceding that Newsweek was slow to produce Watergate breakthroughs and that the wizard himself was growing stale and restless in his last years on the job. Apparently he had not completely recovered when he wrote his book. He does narrate many amusing anecdotes. In one, a Nixon aide phones Elliott at home soon after the Watergate break-in on an issue of considerable urgency: changing Julie's magazine subscription. In this work, at least, Elliott chooses not to say much about the nature of his craft, his era or his inner workings. Mostly...
...glibly gloss over serious charges against capitalism, among them the perpetuation of gross inequalities of wealth and consequently opportunity, ecological disaster resulting from a system that favors corporate profits over a clean environment and human welfare, stress on the individual. Capitalism offers economic freedom only to those who already have the capital to play around with...
...with them?fear of heights, of closed spaces, of open spaces and, above all, of false accusation and/or arrest. Television, when he began appearing as host of a series of funny-scary stories that he supervised (but rarely directed), allowed him to burnish his public persona to a high gloss: the solemn-faced fat man with a stately pace and a sepulchral voice improbably making outrageous puns and ghoulish observations about the tales he told...
...film) brought to life. The director has made little attempt to translate aspects of the novel into cinematic language. While Grass' imagination provides an exciting and titillating narrative, Scholondorff only steers his camera earnestly through each sequence, giving Oskar's war-time charades a warm, personal gloss. Schlondorff's Oskar is little Oskar, a cruel, manipulative Peter Pan who ultimately leaves his Never-never land. He is not Grass' Oskar: a mad, visionary historian vaging a wide, wild war on history...