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...this useful work of reportage, Baker, who recorded the recollections of Viet Nam veterans in his 1982 oral history, Nam, gathers the gripes, boasts, rationalizations and cathartic horror stories of more than 100 police officers of both sexes. This is cassette journalism, immediacy spun from miles of tape, and because Baker does not identify the speakers or their communities, it is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. But the words ring true, even if it is fairly selective truth...
Sometimes oral history is an art; sometimes it is merely mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. It depends as much on the interviewee as the interviewer. In this exhaustive grilling of showfolk past, Film Historian John Kobal has chosen his subjects artfully, and he has edited ruthlessly. Conversations with Bette Davis, whose dramatic biography has been overexposed, are omitted. June Duprez (The Thief of Bagdad) is included precisely be cause of her failure to ascend in Holly wood. With the British actress's help, and some probing questions, Kobal traces "what happened to her career after the film premiered in America...
...prepare for her oral examination, Leventhal leafed through old papers and skimmed course notes. Her reflection on the impact of Sept. 11, she says, was the one theme that stood out. “I realized that Sept. 11 and the response to it has framed my entire academic career...
...Although many lawyers told [Fisher] to focus on a narrower issue that was specific to the Crawford case in his oral argument, he knew when to be bold,” says Richard D. Friedman ’73, who is Aigler professor of law at the University of Michigan. Friedman assisted Fisher with the case and sat with him during his oral argument...
...Summer Reruns One thing Richard Corliss overlooked in "Once More, with Feeling," his story on this summer's film remakes [May 16], is that adaptation is a common practice in Western culture. Greek drama and the works of Homer were based on familiar legends and stories from the oral tradition, and the plays of Shakespeare were often adapted from literary sources. It's what you do with the material, and how you make it new, that counts. M. Thomas Inge Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Randolph-Macon College Ashland, Virginia...