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...Pain of Love)-promise the band at its naughtiest and nastiest, but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are delighting here in twisting their band's carefully cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...
Still, Hobson's book reflects formidable energy and grit, and it ends with an account of a genuine triumph: her stinging 1947 bestseller about antiSemitism, Gentleman's Agreement. Publishing it amounted to breaking a conspiracy of silence and shouting out one of middle-class America's nastiest little secrets. Hobson was undeterred as usual, even by resistance from an unexpected quarter. Among six or eight people whom she consulted before publication, she notes, the general advice was to "go ahead from Christians, and not go ahead from Jews." -By Christopher Porterfield
Perhaps the nastiest of Hersh's charges is the assertion that during the 1968 presidential campaign, Kissinger secretly supplied the Nixon camp with inside information about the Paris peace talks, then being conducted by the Johnson Administration. At the same time, Hersh claims, Kissinger was also offering to turn over damaging files on Nixon that had been compiled by the Rockefeller campaign staff, for whom Kissinger had worked, to Zbigniew Brzezinski, then Hubert Humphrey's foreign policy coordinator. Kissinger has written in his memoirs that he was approached by both campaigns for advice. But Hersh, quoting some former...
...Carter, or that the Republican resurgence was a mere public relations coup capitalizing on the ineptitude of the incumbents--though there's much in both analyses. No--it rests on a more impressionistic claim, one grounded only in personal experience. It's just hard to believe that even the nastiest of incidents--or the deepest of recessions--could invariably turn liberals into neoconservatives...
...savage intensity of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's script and score, probably already familiar to many who will attend this production, director R.J. Cutler sharpens considerably with a raw-edged style of acting and "the meanest nastiest filthie to translation we could find," says one lead. Like the lyrics to the "anti-operatic songs, some of the combative harshness in the acting makes the audience shift uneasily. But it gives them at the same time the feeling that Cutler & Co. meant their skin to crawl this...