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Perhaps the biggest shame is the waste of all those exquisite bodies. Kleiser plays games; filling the screen with unclad gods and goddesses but rarely letting you look for too long or too closely There's so much of it, that the nudity loses all sense of eroticism. The actual sex cryptically hinted at among the protagonists has no impact and elicits no interest...
...casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love to see you shoot" or "Life! It's a shame" in concert, you almost have to laugh, and by their commanding presence on stage, they betray the happy revelation that maybe they aren't that hardened after all. Maybe Marxism can even be fun: their lyrics merely good principles to go along with, not written in stone dogma...
...their music! Simple, driving, compelling, and at times melodic, they put FM reactionary garbage to shame. Chairman Mao was dead wrong, as this version of the Gang of Four disagrees with-their Chinese namesakes a revolution can be a dinner party Or at least a good show...
...play the game anyway: Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were suddenly to fall silent? Easy: No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. What if John Updike were to stop writing? A shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...Down the Road a Piece," didn't make it onto Still Life, the Stones' latest album, a live summary of their 1981 American tour. And that's something of a shame, because the Stones played plenty of true golden oldies while travelling the U.S. last summer and fall. They could have done a great service to rock and roll by recording only those tunes as a pure tribute to their own roots. As it is, the two best cuts on the return--Eddie Cochran's "Twenty-Flight Rock" and Smokey Robinson's "Goin to a Go-Go"--are both...