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However, in “The Ruling Caste,” David Gilmour, constructs a portrait of India that is far different from those found in other works. As opposed to focusing on the lives of the Indians, Gilmour looks to the few thousand British civil servants who, for about a century, were in charge of running a country of over 300 million people...
...pulled off their metamorphosis beautifully. “Return” chronicles human despair and those who try to escape it, largely within the familiar arena of love. The songs all have a vaguely cinematic air; each one focuses on a different mini-drama and advances the moderately bleak portrait that the album establishes. There are missteps, as on the lyrically bizarre “If,” but these occasional blemishes can’t mar the beauty of the album’s grander, more moving songs—ironically, those tracks most indebted to older music...
...Would it have been better if Studi Cattolici had not run the cartoon in the first place? For that matter, would it be better if on May 19 we were to discover that director Ron Howard had decided not to paint the grotesque portrait of Opus (which has its weirdnesses, but probably not including assassination) that Dan Brown did in his novel...
...side there is "Octopus Dei," or, as the current issue of Harper's magazine puts it, "to a great extent ... an authoritarian and semi-clandestine enterprise that manages to infiltrate its indoctrinated technocrats, politicos and administrators into the highest levels of the state." On the other is the portrait painted by Opus' U.S. vicar Thomas Bohlin, who sat for several hours with TIME at his group's Manhattan headquarters. Opus, he explained, is just a teaching entity, a kind of advanced school for Catholic spiritual formation with minimal global coordination or input as to how members and sympathizers apply what...
...recognition alone ensures that a Marley compilation will sell far better than any contemporary reggae release, even if today’s sound is more deserving. Unfortunately, this is the case with “One Love: Bob Marley and the Wailers at Studio One,” a portrait of Marley before he had achieved his later iconic status or developed the musical chops that would earn it for him. Heartbeat Records’ new collection captures Marley with the original Wailers—Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and for a time, Junior Braithwaite and Beverly Kelso?...