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...other book quite like American Tabloid-is most safely done to close friends, whose tastes and tolerances are familiar. Where do they stand on wall-to-wall violence? What is their position on over-the-top sleaze and the reduction of nearly all human conduct to the narrow, insistent lust of self-interest? Pushing such stuff to total strangers could get a person arrested...
Rock is good for rage, lust and protest. But for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. That's why many young musicians are adding a blue tint to new albums such as British-born screecher PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," Houston native Chris Whitley's "Din of Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash...
...self-esteem would give a self-congratulatory "scored one" story. Jimi sees himself as he is--weak-willed and groveling for affection. His reaction to contracting the herpes virus is oddly endearing: "It ain't AIDS," he says, "but it still sucks! An Eternal Scar. One slip and young lust jumps out a window...
...Daniels' Henry V is Shakespeare for the nineties--slick, sexy, and kicked into overdrive by the exhilarating energy of Bill Camp's Henry. The stage seems to throb with the visual intensity of its blood-red set. The theater pulses with the rhythms of the language and the power-lust of the characters...
Bill Camp's Henry is the epicenter of the play, inspiring and occasionally frightening the other characters with his blood-lust and terrible ambition. In Camp's interpretation, Henry gains not only legitimacy through the French campaign, but also humanity. Henry's tears at the bodies of the fallen, and bashfulness in the presence of his new wife, reveal emotions previously hidden under his role of warrior-king...