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...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...
...world of 999, on the eve of the first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged out of the shadows and bandits and marauders maintained their lairs...
Most Americans got their first glimpse of the "new" Al Gore during the Democratic National Convention last July, when the vice-presidential candidate recounted his six-year-old son's brush with death and his family's journey of emotional healing. Some sneered at Gore's revelations about family counseling as mawkish exploitation of private tragedy for political gain. But many voters, aware of the transforming experience of a personal tragedy, are less cynical; they understand that politicians can be simultaneously strategic and sincere. "I thought, 'This white-bread family admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine...
...Walter Isaacson's biography reveals, Kissinger's brush with evil lay at the heart of his "gnawing insecurity" as a man and his rejection of ideology and moralism as a statesman. Kissinger's life was a consuming quest for respect and esteem, while his diplomacy was an attempt to restore the balance of power among nations that prevailed before Nazi and Soviet revolutions...
...catalog by 11 oz. It isn't a show to approach casually, even if the coming box-office jam allowed it. But Elderfield's panorama of Matisse's achievement is so exhilarating, so full of rapturous encounters with one of the grandest pictorial sensibilities ever to pick up a brush, so steady in its narrative line and -- not incidentally -- so sensitively hung, that even if you go in with a certain foreboding, you come out walking on air and longing to start right over again...