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...bully pulpit, the platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone--with titles like How to Invest. Under Merrill...
...miraculously unhammy star turn. Short doesn't merely show off his versatility (how about that German accent, folks!); he creates a string of finely crafted caricatures. Truth be told, the Neil Simon-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical hasn't aged all that well. Based on Patrick Dennis' satiric memoir of a fictional grande dame of the stage and screen, it's too sketchy and weightless, with a rather severe dramatic flaw: the central character (played by the full-voiced, full-figured Faith Prince) is constantly upstaged by her multi-role-playing co-star...
Tony Bennett's greatest gift as a singer has always been his warmth, the sheer joy and geniality that radiate from his pipes. The same goes for this memoir, which skates pleasantly over the surface of his life--just about everyone he ever worked with is "the greatest"--and doesn't even wobble on the choppy patches (the divorces, the cocaine, the time he beat up Don Rickles). One especially wishes the book dug more deeply into Bennett's music--a surprising lack, since co-author Will Friedwald is one of the sharpest jazz writers around. Still, this...
Each story, for the most part, reads like a memoir of Moore's own life (hence the unusual story structures). Moore, a college English professor, fills the book with twenty- to forty-year-old women, generally scholars; one's an SAT consultant, another a professor, another a librarian and the rest teachers. The exceptions include a middle-aged, forgotten actress and a disillusioned, lovelorn man. The stories are sprinkled with pop culture references to the early nineties: several references to Forrest Gump ("`Such a career-ender for Tom Hanks,'" one character remarks), mention of the Gulf War, of O.J. Simpson...
David S. Bennahum '90 reflects that same sense of serenity in technology with his new memoir Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace. He portrays technology as the safe haven for teenagers whose lives might not be picture-perfect. Family and societal turmoil fades into the background while they take refuge in a computer lab. Complex but logical strings of programming code restore order and sense to otherwise tumultuous lives...