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...Before I turned in, I made a quick visit downstairs for refreshment. I returned two hours, and many digital pictures, later. The proprietor, Soso Giorgadze, opened his kitchen to me. I sat with him, his wife, his sister-in-law and a security guard hired to protect the special guest for the night. We exchanged toasts and good wishes for our countries, our children and grandchildren. We made up in hand gestures what we couldn't with language. Plates of cheese, bread and sliced meats came at regular intervals, as did the 35-year-old brandy. (A vintage that...
...credit, Morrow’s portraits of his three main characters are at times quite touching. Morrow vividly describes the Kennedy family, dominated by patriarch Joe and rocked by repeated tragedies. John’s older brother and younger sister were dead by 1948; these repeated reminders of mortality spurred JFK to make the most of every moment. Kennedy might have operated on the assumption that since the gods had mistakenly overlooked him, “then better to take advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with...
However, when it comes to focusing on 1948, which the book promotes as so important, Morrow stumbles. In that year, Kennedy’s sister Kathleen died in a plane crash. Kennedy, then a congressman, concealed the severity of his own illness from the public. These episodes clearly affected Kennedy, but so did many other setbacks—such as his brother Joe Jr.’s death and his sister Rosemary’s lobotomy. The lasting impact of 1948, for JFK at least, is not so clear...
Gordon recalled reading Platonic dialogues with his sister when he was 11 and 12 and later read the Book of Job, which he said struck him “as so disastrously unsatisfactory as an explanation for suffering that it probably moved me to read more systematically in both history and philosophy...
...buoyant and hooky enough on its own to create what could be the first disco chain-gang song. They Never Got You starts with another bass riff before adding drums, a Moog synthesizer and viola so judiciously that you hardly realize they're there. The power pop of Sister Jack breaks for a hysterically grimy guitar solo that stops cold at the last verse, like a guard dog at an electric fence; nothing on Gimme Fiction is allowed to get in the way of melody. There are a few subtle effects--a tape loop ticking away like a lawn sprinkler...