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...story in Somalia is even sadder. Behind intervention there was the notion that the world community should not allow a society to self-destruct and a people to be decimated. Yet after conflicts with General Aidid, the U.N. operation that saved thousands from starvation and was restoring stability to the country seems about ready to collapse. With the imminent failure of the mission, the factional fighting that led to chaos is reappearing. Starvation isn't far behind...
Obviously, this kind of comment, set up as a punch line in a television show, is symptomatic of a society that objectifies women. That's sad. But "Beavis and Butthead" is sadder...
...misery loves company, leaders attending the annual Group of Seven summit $ in Japan this week ought to feel right at home, for a sadder collection of bruises and black eyes would be hard to find. From John Major of Britain to Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan, the heads of the world's richest and most powerful democracies have been chewed up in a grinder of popular discontent...
...quarrel only with the inclusion of "Spacehopper," a jokey sex ditty which could profitably have been replaced by the title track or the haunting "A Crack in the Clouds." My Nation Underground (1988) was more of the same, although a little uneven. "Charlotte Anne" (say it fast) presents a sadder, gentler Julian, singing "The sound you bring is an antiquated thing/ So please don't look to me for guidance" over airy keyboards and a martial beat. The inclusion of the string-sodden "China Doll" is inexplicable...
...image of death is explored in "Try Not To Breathe," a song that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath," until...