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...Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful, chilling detail...
Clinton and Reich met on an ocean liner in 1968, when they were on their way to study at Oxford University as Rhodes scholars. They grew closer after Reich, miserably seasick, opened his stateroom door to find Clinton standing there with chicken soup and crackers, determined to nurse him back to health. Ever since, the two, along with mutual friends from Oxford, have participated in an on-and-off, two-decade "conversation" about how America and its economy should be governed. "Bill has had all of my books inflicted on him," Reich says, "and has done me the honor...
Attempting to get topical, Cope sinks into a mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...
MANY PREVIOUS DEBATES have been decided by a flick of the wit, a clever one- liner that would have political resonance long after the substance of the debate was forgotten. Ronald Reagan, no surprise, was a master at these prerehearsed quips. Facing the beleaguered Carter in their single 1980 debate, Reagan deftly showed he could be a reassuring presence, an equal to an incumbent President, by artfully deploying that carefully calibrated put-down line, "There you go again...
...Breathe," a song that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath," until these shivers subside," he sings. "Just look...