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...here it is, yet another 1,000-plus pages, and in the end it was worth the wait. Kissinger again displays an intellectual ambition, provocativeness and mix of sweep and detail that make other memoirs seem pale. Of course that doesn't mean Years of Renewal (Simon & Schuster; $35) is a relaxing beach read. The narratives and character sketches (including those of Nixon and Ford, excerpted in this issue) are often vivid delights, but they are leavened by meticulous trudges through old battlegrounds (some repetitive of previous volumes) that make up in defensiveness what they lack in concision. To paraphrase...
...brilliantly these questions of authority, here the justice system becomes her battleground; lawyers dispute not over matters of law but something more beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth. The lit-crit quibbling of this approach at times quickly becomes tedious. Still, these cerebral arguments pale beside Malcolm's acute character studies, little gems of quirk and nuance like an eccentric bolo tie on a dreary elderly gentleman that leavens the confusion of the story with humor and grace...
...pale pink walls and carpeting with the same shade of pink woven in make for a soothing atmosphere...
...pale pink walls and carpeting in a subdued multicolor pattern, with the same shade of pink woven in, make for a soothing atmosphere...
...purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...