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...document of the century." He then seized the hand of George ("my friend") Bush and began squeezing as if he were trying to wring out a wet dishrag. The gesture was an appropriate one: increasingly beleaguered by a devilish array of domestic problems, the Russian President must twist every drop of prestige he can from his foreign triumphs. Yet not even the acclaim of history's most extensive cutback in nuclear missiles could compensate for an economy tailspinning into chaos. According to the latest figures, Russian productivity plummeted 24% in the past year even as prices surged...
Roger Clinton, 36, knows that by a twist of fate he has been cast as the suburban version of Billy Carter, the other honky-tonking younger brother with a history of substance abuse. When the comparison is thrown at him, Roger offers this artful riposte: Did you know, he says, that a cancer-stricken Billy spent the last years of his life counseling other terminally ill patients...
Sonnenschein places his characters in cliched situations and then abruptly undermines the cliche with a sarcastic twist; his sense of humor produces great moments. But at times, the action degenerates into a melodramatic mish-mash (murders, explosions and family desertions abound...
Cohen is not one of those artists he characterizes in the title track as "lousy little poets/ Coming round/ Trying to sound like Charlie Manson." He knows how to be vulnerable as well as play at it. His love songs twist the heart around like fingers knotting a string. The gloomy ironies of political caution, like Democracy, are applied with a sense of urgency but salved by some surefooted wit ("I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean:/ I love the country but I can't stand the scene") that neatly sidesteps sermonizing...
...workingman's blues theme is given a comical twist in these black-and- white magazine portraits of frustrating moments. A woman ties her dog to the side of the house; when it lunges, the whole structure collapses. In another, just as a laborer is finishing a perfect sidewalk, a friendly pup trots through the wet cement to visit him. The bottom line: "Fortunately, every day comes with an evening." And a soothing whiskey, perhaps...