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...most of aMINIATURE's songs are muttered or hoarsely shouted to the point of venomous unintelligibility, which only means that whatever's being said gets eclipsed by singer John Lee's captivating way of "saying" it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Lee had swallowed a distortion pedal sometime around puberty--there's more noise bound up in his voice than there is in most beat-up old amplifiers. And when he's got something to say, it's even better--"Towner on the B-Side," for example, seems to be a song about insecure people trying...
...there is a strong reason for White House efforts to soft-pedal the whole affair, and it can be put in a single word: Hillary. Compared with the President, the First Lady was a central player. Among other things, she sought power of attorney for Whitewater and represented McDougal's S&L before a state regulator appointed by her husband, then Arkansas Governor. "This is hers," says a White House official. "If the troopers ((who accused Bill Clinton of extramarital affairs)) were about him, this one is about...
Stern is at heart a deeply perverse jester, and looks and sounds like one. When he chased Phil Donahue in order to kiss him (to Phil's extreme displeasure) on Donahue's show two weeks ago, he was being the pedal-to-the- metal performance artist one expects. And his unedited riffing can often be, as charged, disgusting: his jokes 11 years ago about his wife's miscarriage were inexcusable, his now defunct TV show's low-rent T&A spectacle a depressing glimpse into a New Jersey heart of darkness...
Reeves doesn't try to soft-pedal the distasteful, but his account of the Kennedy presidency is resolutely matter of fact and not an indictment. At one point he describes the image that J.F.K.'s inner circle tried to project as one of "cool objectivity, pure information gathering, dispassionate analysis." He must have absorbed some of that style during his long immersion in the archives and artifacts of the New Frontier...
Leaving the area with these pictures, Nachtwey drove southwest and reached Vitez six hours later. Suddenly, machine guns opened fire from both sides of the road. Nachtwey floored the gas pedal and drove through a solid kilometer of gunfire. Miraculously, only one bullet penetrated the car, hitting the passenger-seat headrest. He learned later that the gunners were neither Serbs nor Muslims, but Croats...