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...this is a matter of record -- indeed, of rock mythology -- and needs some freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon...
...dynamics between Pizarro and Incan ruler Atahuallpa (Alex Pak), for example, are wonderful. The two gradually learn to interact as equals who allow free rein to their mutual fascination. Atahuallpa and Pizarro strike up a humorous, thought-provoking dialogue in the midst of adversity. While Atahuallpa is held prisoner by the Spaniards in his own palace, he jokes with Pizarro, "Your pope is mad, he gives away countries that are not his." Later, he quips of transubstantiation, "First [Christ] becomes a biscuit and then they eat him and then they drink his blood...
...probably from La Venta; but its immense vitality suggests that in Olmec cosmology, cripples and dwarfs were invested with numinous power, along with jaguars and eagles. Another is the 7th century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic type...
Khrushchev's relatives and friends feared, however, that the former Kremlin ruler had sometimes gone too far in fulminating against the shortcomings of the Soviet system, denouncing political figures who were still alive and exposing what the authorities would consider state secrets. So, to avert reprisals, they held back some of the tapes...
...reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro's bid to launch nuclear missiles against...