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...book by Michael Gross, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (William Morrow; $25), is notable not so much for its revelations of drug use and other wild behavior by supermodels in the past as for the amount of knowledge the book assumes we have about models-their rocker boyfriends, their rich contracts, their past traumas. "The media have blown up models massively,'' says fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. "They have been made more special than they ever were...
...everyone loves the Chieftains. Almost. "The diehards don't like us," Moloney says. "But with The Long Black Veil we've made a million more friends than we've lost. We are not going off our rocker. And we are not going to become rockers." Moloney hopes to go in a different direction. "If I can only find some quiet time, I want to write the symphonic music I've been dreaming about since I was a child." His face is illuminated with delight as he says this. It beams again when he offers this innocent credo: "The great leaders...
...heathen blues") or finically polish the grammar (John's "You've really got a hold on me"). Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic next to the originals. But Paul's raveups -- his countertenor superscreaming on Long Tall Sally or the understandably obscure 1956 rocker Clarabella -- still have a clear pulse. John leads a happy assault on Sweet Little Sixteen. And George is the musical star; he lays down plenty of inventive improvs on his lead guitar...
Mitchell is less forthcoming about the inspiration for Not to Blame, a song about spousal abuse that seems to allude to the well-publicized domestic troubles of West Coast rocker Jackson Browne and actress Daryl Hannah. "It's not about anyone specific," she insists. "It's about the phenomenon of the battered woman at this time...
...fangs in a potent, political rap number called Famine: "I see the Irish/ As a race like a child/ that got bashed in the face." In addition to these harsh tracks, however, Universal Mother does have many gentle moments, including a delicate acoustic version of the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain's composition All Apologies...