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Another editor of The Crimson, Brad Edward White, ended a review of The Bell Curve by asking "thinking conservatives" to reconsider their "urge to dismantle government." It seems ironic that Mr. White would consider strengthening the likes of Hitler, Stalin, and Sanger's favorite tool: a powerful central government meant to administer a program of eugenics...
...become of the immense quantities of works of art -- paintings, sculptures, drawings, antiquities, textiles -- that Germany stole from Russia and Russia from Germany? Many of the missing objects, no doubt, were destroyed; others, stolen by individual soldiers. But systematic cultural looting was also policy for both Hitler and Stalin, and both sides carried it out on an unprecedented scale, using art specialists to pick the goodies...
...Soccer War, a collection of daredevil reportage from the Third World. Imperium too is a bravura performance, a kind of New Journalism about the Old World. As a youth in Soviet-dominated Pinsk, Poland, which is now in Belarus, Kapuscinski saw friends and teachers disappear -- part of Stalin's mass deportation and resettlement program that aimed to replace diverse nationalities with homo sovietus. This misfortune, as a dour professor in Baku tells the author, threatens present-day peace and stability from the Caucasus to the Pacific. "Now," he says, "one cannot move anyone without also moving someone else, without doing...
...grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love and a hostage looks on. As the Cowboy Junkies' ethereal version of Sweet Jane plays on the sound track, they make...
...melodrama, unconvincing uplift and grotesque humor. Readers who sling their hammock, move their samovar onto their veranda and settle down for an old-fashioned summer read may be distracted by a narrative farrago that includes a scene in which Dr. Gradov nearly wins the Order of Lenin for giving Stalin an emergency enema...