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...Iran, and I'm learning very fluent Hebrew!"). If Anwar Sadat is chosen Man of the Year by Time, the newsweekly with its finger squarely up the nose of middle America, then perhaps Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner is a close second. The latest Rolling Stone contains its annual reader's poll--not surprisingly, Fleetwood Mac comes out on top--"Rumours" still goes platinum again every month. But perhaps the most interesting precious metals are passed out in the Platinum Turkey Awards, in the "What Ever Happened to Ego Death" Category, which cites, among others, Rod Stewart, Ken Russell, Reggie...
When we were allowed to read books, magazines and newspapers, I voraciously read, finding in every word a novelty?something which opened new horizons before my eyes. It was thanks to an article contributed by an American psychologist to the Reader's Digest that I succeeded in getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...
...means of a token possession of the beauty of actors. But the relation of a still photograph to a film is intrinsically misleading. To quote from a movie is not the same as quoting from a book. Whereas, the reading time of a book is up to the reader, the viewing time of a film is set by the filmmaker and the images are perceived only as fast or as slowly as the editing permits. Thus, a still, which allows one to linger over a single moment as long as one likes, contradicts the very form of film...
...followers of Rolling Stone had little reason to expect anything special in the published commemoration of the magazine's ten years, and the issue lives up to these very lowered expectations. Where an objective chronicle of the trends in rock over the last 120 months would have sufficed, the reader instead turns to pages of unabashed narcissism and a muddled, warped view of rock music during the years of Rolling Stone. In other words, the subject is the magazine itself, rather than the culture that nourished...
Describing the river trip, McPhee is superb. His eye for detail is acute, yet never excessive. He treats the use of detail, not as an end in itself, but as a means of making the country real, of placing the reader in its midst. In his opening lines, McPhee writes...