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...person Anna Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a minimum of costumes and props she can make herself tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind...
...every Congressman and Senator who is dismayed at having a base on the list," says Keith Cunningham, an analyst at Washington's nonprofit Business Executives for National Security, "there are many more who say, There but for the grace...
TITLE: DAYS OF GRACE: A MEMOIR...
...exchange is stoically recalled in Days of Grace, published four months after Ashe died of AIDS contracted from that tainted pick-me-up. If there were lamentations for his added hardship, they are not in the pages of this memoir, which Ashe started writing last June. He had endured greater pressures. "Race has always been my biggest burden," he writes. "Having to live as a minority in America. Even now it continues to feel like an extra weight tied around...
...like financial advice is firmly based on bad experiences, and all things considered, his pick of Jimmy Connors as the best men's singles player of the past 25 years is sound. Too bad Ashe was not around long enough to question the title of his memoir. Days of Grace is rather self-regarding for an autobiographical work. Bad Bounce would have been more in keeping with the champion's professional approach to living and dying...