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...glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea are delivered with the trademark wry sincerity that has for five previous albums saved Browne...
...next evening some 35 police officers were on hand, including detectives in tuxedos, as the Berlin company performed Panov's staging of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin. As his rival, Prince Myshkin, performed the final scene, a madman's vision of the world consumed by fire, the audience broke into wild applause...
...Coup de Tete" means "hothead" in French and Perrin, Dawaere's shuffling maniac, is certainly a hothead, a clever village idiot who knows, at least what idiocy he has perpetrated. And what idiocy he has not. One frustrating day, when nothing goes right for the luckless Perrin, he decides to leave town, to remove his boyish good looks and soccer talent from the clutches of the petit-bourgeois burghers of Trincamp, a quaint French ville whose occupants lust for a national soccer championship. But before Perrin can escape, the local cops nab him for a rape he didn't commit...
...dreary months in prison pass before the town fathers, desperate for a right wing on their now-successful soccer team, order Perrin's release. His free-world escapades, soccer conquests and unique knack for revenge on the morons who framed him make Perrin a lovable idiot-savante in the best Moliere tradition. Equally delightful is the quiet affair between Perrin and the rich, beautiful, sexy woman whom he allegedly attacked...
...youngest of four boys. Her grandfather, considered addled by the villagers, tries to exchange his infant son for a girl baby. On feet maimed by binding, the mother hobbles off to retrieve her child, raging all the while at her husband: "Dead man, trading a son for a slave. Idiot." It is this indomitable woman who had forced him to leave the village and seek work in America, to become a Sojourner on the Gold Mountain: "Make money. Don't stay here eating...