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...canny conduit to spread the social and sonic threat of rock 'n roll from kids' bedrooms into the nation's living rooms. Jerry Lee Lewis might come on, pound away at "Great Balls of Fire" and flip his head forward, letting his hair spill over his face like a thick blond veil. (I can still recall a delicious roiling in my stomach when I saw this.) But because Clark was running things, Jerry Lee's performance seemed less like outrage than an extension of entertainment...
...Both "King-Cat Collection" and "Perfect Example" are wonderfully printed, with soft cardboard covers and thick paper. They have a natural quality to them that matches the work. Of the two, "Perfect Example" will be the "easier" one to find, and more satisfying, with it's longer, more involved story. But either one, and preferably both, would be a strong addition to your library and your life...
...those familiar songs that you find her most effective and artistically startling. With that thick contralto, Wilson tunes into the wavelengths of romance in all its bounces, its bends, its heights and its cold-shouldered loneliness. There is no more purely and uncontrived female force in our national music today...
Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its beauty...
...doubts, however, that Mueller's thick skin will serve him well if he is confirmed as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Mueller's solid and strong-willed, and I think he's the perfect person to lead the FBI, given all the problems that have happened lately," says Bill Baker, who was the assistant director of the FBI for criminal investigations in the first Bush administration, when Mueller was assistant Attorney General for the Justice criminal division. "He knows the FBI well, but he's not inside...