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Holyfield will never achieve the popularity of Ali or Tyson or even George Foreman, in part because goodness doesn't sell as well as brashness or menace or comedy. But there should be a place in the heavyweight pantheon for a champion who travels without an entourage, for a man who truly cares about others. Asked if he would like to train boxers, Holyfield recalled a painful experience he had while coaching the Holyfield Team, a group of amateur boxers. "I was working in the corner of one boxer, and when I looked over, the opponent was in tears. Turns...
...settling of the eastern Montana drylands primarily as a romance rather than, say, a swindle or a blunder. And starry optimism is what settling this magnificent emptiness required in the first place, as Jonathan Raban relates in his beautifully told historical meditation, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon; 336 pages...
...gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches from plastic soldiers. Nothing...
...time, I refrained from speculating in a disrespectful manner on whether the pantheon of memorable lines by modern American politicians--lines like "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"--would be expanded after this election to include not only Bill Clinton's most stirring remarks about school uniforms and the length of hospital maternity stays but also "Beach volleyball is what freedom is all about...
AIMEE MANN DESERVES A PLACE of special honor in the somewhat crowded pantheon of great singer-songwriters who have never got their due. A decade ago--before Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos and the latest wave of female alternative rockers began road-testing designer-packaged angst--Mann was cracking the Top 10 with her band 'Til Tuesday and their million-selling debut single, Voices Carry. Her gorgeously crafted, McCartneyesque melodies and her lyrical bent for evening the score with slippery record execs and self-absorbed lovers not only made for refreshingly pungent pop, it also became the blueprint for today...