Word: lullabye
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Nearly 30 years ago, Vidal argued that an American tyrant would achieve power not by ranting his hatred a la Hitler but by crooning a demagogic lullaby. For some, Ronald Reagan, who could say mean things without sounding mean -- sometimes without sounding as if he meant them or knew what...
When Hillary Clinton said she wasn't one of those women who stay home and bake cookies, she could have been talking about Tipper Gore. Al and Tipper met at his senior prom. They dated each other exclusively while he was at Harvard and she got her psychology degree from...
James is at their best in their dance tunes, but they display almost equal proficiency in some other styles. "Next Lover," their soft, lyrical love song, is reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair." Its simple, pretty lyrics, combined with the gentle weaving of guitars in the background, create...
NAT KING COLE: COLE, CHRISTMAS & KIDS (Capitol). Most of us have heard the great man cook up his "chestnuts roasting on an open fire," but this collection pulls together a graceful, occasionally goofy group of 13 Cole Yuletide greetings. He wrings some swing out of All I Want for Christmas...
Bogosian's Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, handsomely filmed by John McNaughton, is a 10-pack of modular monologues. The subjects don't interact with one another; they shout at invisible targets. But it's soon manifest that in their common rancor, they constitute a lost tribe of American masculinity. The...