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...book is not a novel and is best read as a semi-fictionalized case study--though one made all the more intriguing by the author's self-conscious narration. Schumer's language is brisk and informative, and she successfully avoids turning sentiment into a soppy trip down memory lane. And a decade later, the reader gets the impression that the characters are ready to put it all behind them. "I never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that...
...first act moves along at a brisk pace and is much more intense than the second, which lags and looks under-rehearsed. The play chiefly consists of monologues, but their intensity is undermined by the actors in the background. They seem unsure of what to do when not speaking and occasionally lapse out of character and look around the theater...
...Steve Mizerak, the world champion pool player; Kim Bokamper, the mammoth Miami Dolphin football star; and Oleg Cassini, the aristocratic little Italian fashion designer. Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies. They guided their spirited horses at a brisk trot around the track as if they were aristocrats circling an Edwardian park. The celebrities treated the race with the mock seriousness typical of such events. Their real goal, besides the charity, was to have fun without making absolute fools of themselves. Except, that is, for Steinbrenner, whose only goal...
...trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week," and the island's lone druggist, Ed Walsh, reported a brisk business in the ten brands he stocks...
...crisis of faith in the White House only counterpointed a new air of confidence in the Kremlin. In 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev continued his brisk public relations offensive by sweeping the cobwebs out of his foreign service and introducing a little fresh air into the long-closed rooms of Soviet public life. In September he managed to trump Washington when the KGB released U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in exchange for a proven spy. Just two weeks later, Gorbachev again seemed to outmaneuver President Reagan at their unofficial summit in Iceland. The two leaders came closer than ever before...