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Like a racehorse galloping around its paddock, wanting more to race than to graze, this band wants to rock.
The Delgados, live. Beautiful, clear singing, but utterly incomprehensible stage banter.
Before "The Matrix," before "The Truman Show," and yes, before "Austin Powers," there was "The Prisoner."
Alan Furst's spy novels tell the sort of untellable stories that one can only imagine from the obituary pages, as the last survivors of the W.W. II years silently pass away.
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Who else but the Supersuckers could whip a jaded New York crowd into a song-and-response of “Are you ready? Yes we’re ready!” in the chorus of a number entitled “Rock Your Ass”?
At one level, this is a well-plotted, unusually (for this author) emotionally-involving piece of conventional fiction; at another, it is radically meta-fictional, tackling head-on the gap of human incomprehension.
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