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...BOOK into print to capitalize on a commercially hot author. Sometimes the tactic backfires. This is what happened to P.J. O'Rourke, whose last book, Parliament of Whores, a sidesplitting broadside at Congress, was a best seller last year. GIVE WAR A CHANCE (Atlantic Monthly Press; $20.95), a compendium of columns and random thoughts, has all the wise- guy wit we've come to expect from the fiercely traditional Rolling Stone columnist, but it feels old. O'Rourke's shots at American antiwar protesters, jabs at Arab sheiks and some predictable jokes about poorly stocked shelves in what...
...members of Ugly Kid Joe don't take themselves too seriously, as evidenced by the last "song" on As Ugly As They Wanna Be. "Heavy Metal," a 27-second burst of metal energy, effectively combines speed metal, thrash, and Crane's heavy metal howls into a nice little compendium of classic Headbanger's Ball...
...final night of the holiday, friends and relatives join the family for a feast known as the Karamu. This year a compendium of celebratory recipes has been published in Eric Copage's Kwanzaa: An African-American Celebration of Culture and Cooking (Morrow; $25). The book also contains stories about black history and culture, along with suggestions on how to use them to illustrate the seven principles...
...Bochco may be smarter than ABC thinks. Civil Wars is a canny compendium of every relationship issue the '90s has to offer. And it feeds one of TV's most enduring myths: that the cold legal system has a human face. The moral high ground is always clearly marked -- for the viewer, if not always for the judge. Lawyers, moreover, are warm, understanding and passionately devoted to their clients. Onorati, after negotiating a settlement for the "overweight" wife, accompanies her to her 20th-year college reunion. Hemingway pleads with one client, the wife of a sleazy rock musician...
...presence of a work like "Cross" aptly complements and brings new meaning to other exhibits, like "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941), which opens the show. The latter print becomes a compendium for the show as a whole. The photograph contains a little bit of everything--a stunning evening landscape of mountains and clouds, a few remnants of industrialization, numerous crosses. It skillfully summarizes a new and fuller view of Ansel Adams...