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...candor has merely thrown light on a common, if little discussed, medical practice. "Doctors all over the world shorten the lives of patients under the cover of pain reduction, and only we are stupid enough to talk about it," says Bert Keizer, a nursing home physician in Amsterdam, whose memoir about his life among the dying, Dancing with Mister D, was a best seller...
Richburg defended the book, calling it a "personal memoir...
...Voting Rights Act; against the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.; against a memorial for civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi; in favor of extending tax breaks to segregated schools. Political consultant Dick Morris, who has worked with both Lott and Clinton, writes in his memoir that during the welfare debate last summer, Clinton privately shouted that Lott "loved cutting off children! You should have seen his face! He was delighted that he could savage them, delighted...
...might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father...
...call has worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion in favor of breeding attack dogs, and the daughter has decamped for New York City to write "a post-modern novel." One hesitates to question the veracity of a book labeled a memoir, but Harrison's overheated prose and her sketchy characters and settings make this more a purple tale than a glimpse of truth...