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American Graffiti is not a profound film, but it's especially well-done and a lot of fun. It is a memory, perhaps a memoir, of what one goes through on the way to adulthood. If you're one of the freshmen registering today, you're probably wondering if you should ever have come. American Graffiti will comfort you with the knowledge that you are no different than anyone else...
...both books should be so disappointing. As a television watcher for The New Yorker during the worst of the Viet Nam War, Arlen wrote a mordantly brilliant series of essays that have been collected in The Living Room War. His second book was Exiles, a precise and lovely memoir of his parents. But An American Verdict seems oddly negligent...
...book Marilyn: An Untold Story, which will be published in August, is not a biography. It is a memoir, with completely new material, written by someone who knew Miss Monroe personally for the last seven years of her life. It is undeserving of the "also" treatment you gave it in your story...
...first volume of her magnificent memoir, Hope Against Hope (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971), Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of Poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled her husband's grim joke on the subject of Russian culture in the 1930s. "Poetry is respected only in this country," he said. "There's no place where more people are killed...
...must have seemed like a good idea at the time, which was probably a year or two ago in some Georgetown parlor or Southhampton sun deck. Washington Socialite Barbara Howar would write a memoir of her already copiously documented career as a ringmaster of Washington's social capers, her marriage to- and divorce from- the heir to a construction fortune, her affairs and flirtations with the mighty, her fall from grace as a lady in waiting to the John son White House. At the same time, her constant companion, ex-Harper's Editor Willie Morris, would write...