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...with The Wanderer, a haunting litany of discontent performed by guest singer Johnny Cash that pushes the album into the numinous region of The Joshua Tree. Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for, but the search continues to redefine the boundaries of modern rock. Like a memoir written while the applause is still thundering, Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm...
...MEMOIR: John Connally's Look Back...
...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...
Although Arnold Rampersad, biographer of Langston Hughes and a Princeton professor of literature, is listed as a co-author of the memoir, its style and organization show understandable signs of haste. Ashe was anxious to set the record straight. He does. What he says about his conservative upbringing in Virginia and his days as coach of the U.S. Davis Cup Team add to his luster. His views on social values and race relations are unexceptionable, his Polonius-like financial advice is firmly based on bad experiences, and all things considered, his pick of Jimmy Connors as the best...
...Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...