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What His Way acknowledges but cannot really convey is the gift that made Sinatra famous and kept him that way: the meticulous phrasing that changed the intonation of popular music, the velvety, plaintive baritone that was the most distinctive male singing voice between Bing Crosby's and Elvis Presley's. Sinatra's character is a thumb in the public eye, but his songs continue to work a lonely magic. And not so lonely. Kelley notes that Frank, like everyone else, used Sinatra LPs as fail-safe aids to seduction...
...stony silence, Joe tries desperately to win back her favor. These moments provide Carlos with fine comic material as he jumps from one impersonation to another, from one deliciously wicked private joke to the next. Both actors sustain their own extended monologues beautifully, but, just as important, they also convey a great depth of attachment and intimacy whenever Mag and Joe are reconciled...
...Wise Men encompasses this center of influence with vigor and style. Walter Isaacson, the Nation editor of TIME, and Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names...
What clashes in the connection of poetry and politics is that on the surface, the two forms of expression seem antipodal not only in tone and structure but in the pictures of mind they convey. The poet is a vague and hazy animal, the politician hunched forward like a cat. What one would devour, the other would toy with in the air, angling the world in his paws so as to know not the world itself but the light-play on the world...
Banks and his actors are extremely intent on achieving a sense of unreality, an abstraction of performance, but they convey little of the direct humor and liveliness in Mishima's text...