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Even on the nastiest New England day, there's no place like home...
...their heyday, the Pretty Things were maybe the nastiest band around, racking up a truly admirable 61 convictions. The hilarious liner notes to their new album answers the following question in the affirmative: "didn't they live with Brian Jones and get into real fights and have bisexual encounters in the mid 60s and get banned from places and stuff?" But it never explains why anyone should listen to this album and not their 60s triumphs. They out-Stoned the Stones. Unfortunately, both of these bands are still around. The Stones have sucked for a good long time...
What accounts for this decline in decorum? Airlines run a virtually free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights...
When a single day's batch of mail includes a letter from one reader who tells us how much she "adores Joel Stein's celebrity interviews" and another from a reader who thinks Stein is "the nastiest, bitchiest, sleaziest little rat ever to scoot around the halls of TIME," you know you've got one provocative writer on your hands...
...involvement in the Middle East, as both a journalist and an academic, coincided with the nastiest period of the cold war in that part of the world--when the KGB, for example, was making weapons drops off the coast of Aden for radical Palestinian guerrillas. During this period, he developed close working relationships with some of the U.S.'s least favorite rulers, most notoriously with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. According to widespread but unconfirmed reports, he worked for the KGB at this time. Primakov never comments on the allegations, though the fact that...