Word: laid
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With the popularity of releases such as Guru's "Jazzmatazz" and Us3 's "Hand on the Torch," the last few years have seen hip-hop/jazz fusion hit the mainstream charts. Eminently cool horn lines and laid back hip-hop beats brought out new shades in each genre, creating a sound that, as the sales numbers affirm, lots of people liked. Forever dabbling in popular music, Branford Marsalis offered up his version of this recipe last year with his latest band's self-titled CD, "Buckshot LeFonque." On leave from "The Tonight Show," this band is now on tour...
...History Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient...
Tidbits like this fill the pages of History Laid Bare, a chronicle of "Love, sex and Perversity" which begins in 1400 B.C. and continues up to 1920s America. After that, presumably, there is too much perversity to fit in one book...
...best, History Laid Bare is novel enough to hold the reader's prurient interest...
...History Laid Bare's only failing is its author's refusal to acknowledge that the book works best as a procrastination tool. In the introduction and in the running commentary which links the anecdotes together, Zacks sets himself up as a righteous liberator of history from "Victorians and other prudish scholars" who took out all the good parts in history. Zacks' condescension towards his subjects is irritating. He would have done better to get out of the way and let his ribald material speak for itself...