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Books: Courtly dissections by Murray Kempton...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis in Russia. Altogether, Rebellions provides proof of the conclusion reached long ago by its author's many admirers: Murray Kempton possesses one of the most penetrating minds in American journalism...
...wonderful academic advisor," saidRebecca A. Murray '95, who is taking a juniortutorial with Naiburg. "she's also a great personjust to talk to about what's going on in yourlife...
...exploiting a musician's notoriety and an audience's star lust. It has reached a nadir of sorts with Backbeat, a homoerotic paean to Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), the fifth Beatle. Or maybe the sixth, if you count pre-Ringo drummer Pete Best and leave out George Martin and Murray...