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...seemed in decades past. No longer is it primarily an exotic and ballyhooed indulgence of high-gloss entrepreneurs, Hollywood types and high rollers, as it was only three or four years ago-the most conspicuous of consumptions, to be sniffed from the most chic of coffee tables through crisp, rolled-up $100 bills. Today, in part precisely because it is such an emblem of wealth and status, coke is the drug of choice for perhaps millions of solid, conventional and often upwardly mobile citizens-lawyers, businessmen, students, government bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, secretaries, bankers, mechanics, real estate brokers, waitresses. Largely unchecked...
...scene is an 8,000-acre estate in Oxfordshire. Some very upper-class English have assembled to enjoy the hospitality of their host, Sir Randolph Nettleby, and three days of partying and shooting in the crisp fall weather. The month is October and the year is 1913. A novel set in this place and time automatically creates a reserve of ready-made poignancy: the insular, comfortable people of the period had no idea what the guns of August 1914 would bring. But Author Isabel Colegate does not exploit this sentiment. The coming Great War is, naturally, a fact of which...
Friday, March 13, the last day of second-term classes, was a crisp, late-winter Michigan afternoon. Exams would start Monday, but many Michigan State University [MSU] students had more important things on their minds. More than 500 undergraduates stood outside the Administration Building, carrying signs and chanting slogans. University President M. Cecil Mackey tried to slip in unnoticed through a back door, but the protesters spotted him and chased...
...Everything We Had employ the techniques of oral history to find the answer. Mark Baker and Al Santoli have skillfully edited and orchestrated their interviews. Nam stretches the form. A crisp, uniform tone suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal...
...performances are good, and Eichhorn's is more than that, ranging from drunken despair to crisp reformation to, finally, gentle acquiescence in Bridges' fantasy. But the energy cell powering the whole works is Heard. Recent movies have been full of psychopaths, but this is the definitive statement on that snaky breed. The alternation of charm and rage, of bravado and self-pity-above all the watchful intelligence in the eyes, judging just how far he can go before people revolt against his manipulations-all this marks Heard's as a big but never too broad performance. That...