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Hetfield is the son of a truck driver and a light-opera singer, and while he writes with all the subtlety of a Peterbilt, he can sing. What saves St. Anger from being a victim of its own self-pity, and actually elevates it into the category of a pretty good metal record, is his voice. Producer Bob Rock has wisely taken the gloss off Metallica's sound, and Hetfield is the biggest beneficiary. On tracks like My World, he comes through in all his gruff and gravelly glory. The unaffected strain in his voice acts as a form...
...left it at home, the police took him to a nearby station. By the next day when his boss and friends showed up with the necessary papers, Sun had been transferred to a detention center for vagrants. Two days later, on March 20, he was dead, the victim of a brutal beating in the center's infirmary...
...calm self-assurance of a skilled artisan; a mason or a carpenter, perhaps, a tradesman who is good with his hands. He is known?and feared?for those giant hands and his sweet, clear voice. "He'll be smiling and talking, and the next thing, he's breaking his victim's neck," a colleague says admiringly. "It was his specialty." M.R. is a hit man. And he kills with those sledgehammer hands...
...corporate ladder. He subcontracts his work out to a stable of killers, dozens of younger men who prefer a handgun to M.R.'s more intimate way of death by close embrace. He drags on a cigarette, and explains that some of his boys will offer a prayer for their victim, while others try to erase the murders from their conscience with hashish or sex. "Nobody is a born killer," he says...
...doubt, but with a purpose. She knew she'd have to show a little ankle to justify such a huge advance. She also knew the book would allow her to set in stone (or print) the parts of the fiasco that had proved so useful. Indeed, Hillary plays the victim card to perfection, shrouding her lawyer-like efforts to set the record straight. If Hillary had initially been an involuntary victim, she now reprises the role voluntarily. It worked once; it is working again...