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ENO/CALE: WRONG WAY UP (Opal/Warner Bros.). Of course it's weird: 10 tunes that are part madman mumblings, part hip mantras. The music is spooky and melodic, however, and everything that seems strange at first starts very quickly to sound almost everyday -- if every day is like a dream...
...Saddam] is a megalomaniac madman dictator," he says. "He should be exterminated...
...call it, as Ellis does, a challenge to his readers' complacency does violence to his audience and to the fundamental nature of his craft. So when editor Asahina comes to his writer's defense by claiming that American Psycho "succeeds in taking readers into the mind of a madman," the obvious question is, How long do they have to stay there? Ten pages, 50 pages, 150 pages? Less than zero...
...fiery rhetoric of a madman? Or the calculated political message of an ambitious tyrant seeking to ensure his own coronation as master of the Arab universe? That is just what statesmen in the West and the Middle East are asking as Saddam accelerates his determined campaign for regional dominance. In recent months he has thrust himself into the world spotlight with a series of saber-rattling actions, statements and threats that have reinforced his reputation for ruthlessness and provoked disturbing questions about his ultimate designs. "He is playing on an old theme; call it constructive craziness," says Mark Heller...
...Yeltsin threatens Gorbachev's economic and political plans with a proposed program of sovereignty that would reduce the country to an alliance. -- In Poland, patience must not be in short supply if economic reforms are to succeed. -- A landslide victory for Burma's opposition. -- Iraq's Saddam Hussein: dangerous madman or cunning tyrant...