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...more murders, both of Germans, committed by rightist thugs. In Berlin a leftist was stabbed; in Wuppertal a man was stomped and burned by assailants who apparently -- and mistakenly -- thought he was Jewish. In Bonn, said an official, the feeling set in that "it was another turn of the spiral, and it showed what would happen if we didn't say, 'Stop...
...that's the inescapable impression conveyed by Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s follow- up to its 1991 critical and commercial smash, Out of Time. The record gets off to a somber start with Drive, a dirgelike number featuring lyricist and lead singer Michael Stipe, and continues its downward spiral with a string of songs that meander into a morass of hopelessness, anger and loss...
...visions for the coming year while a group of overtired executives listen and question. Selection is, after all, the trademark of a Harvard experience. We compete like mad just to get in. And once we're here, we keep selecting--this time among ourselves. It's a never-ending spiral of choosing, of differentiating, of distinguishing. For what end? That's a question, unfortunately, that we don't often try to answer. Sometimes it all seems a little sick...
...costs and health insurance premiums climb at a dizzying rate; employers, on whom the system has depended for decades, take desperate measures under intense pressure; the numbers of people uninsured or underinsured rise steadily; government at all levels appears unable to take even the smallest steps to interrupt the spiral. There is no good news to provide balance...
...professor resembles the broken-spirited figures in anticommunist plays by Pinter or Havel, ready to comply with anything just to end the humiliation and pain. His ugly spiral downward is at once outlandish and entirely plausible, and it had this audience member virtually leaping out of his chair in fury at the injustice and unreason. Whatever the bumps -- and there are a few in Mamet's staging of his text -- the power to incense, like that to sadden or amuse, is reason enough to cheer for the future of the theater...