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...amusing nor very thought-provoking. Indeed, it is difficult to see what Allen was hoping for with Radio Days. The bleak seriousness that he offered as proof of his new maturity in Interiors gives way in Radio Days to saccharin nostalgia, the type of forlorn longing for the `good ol' days' that could most generously be labelled "poignantly...
...tossed myself over the barrier and started across the field when I saw that there was someone at work over to my left. A group of people picking, a smaller group of people watching, a truck, baskets of strawberries, German shepards--big ol' dogs. Inching closer, the pickers were darker than those watching...
...nonsensical talk during the '80s among cocky Republicans and Chicken Little Democrats of a rightward realignment, voters Tuesday sent some pretty liberal men--and one woman--to Washington. Considering also the liberals elected in 1984, and discounting the cranky Southern bad ol' boys who will chair key committees, the complexion of the new Senate is a fairly healty pink...
Assuming that this biography of one of President Reagan's Medal of Freedom winners is accurate, is it also fair? Kelley takes pains to point out that Sinatra's callousness has often been balanced by a swaggering generosity. Ol' Blue Eyes may have charged the gaudy anniversary ring he gave to Ava to her account, being down on his luck at the time. He also played benefits tirelessly for worthy causes, raised millions for charity, and impulsively paid bills for down-and-out show business acquaintances, and sometimes for people whose hard-luck stories he happened to see in newspapers...
...Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra is not yet in bookstores, and Kelley's unflinching portrait of the swaggering singer, said to be based on more than 800 interviews, is already causing a sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop the book with a $2 million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back...