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...WITHOUT LIMITS A portrait of the artist as a long-distance runner. Steve Prefontaine (well played by Billy Crudup) is a knothead and a hothead, determined to shape his life and race to his own vision. This biography, from director and co-writer Robert Towne, is a sweet, sober meditation on winning, losing and the enigmas of American maleness...
...Congress moves to rethink the statute, Espy is preparing to salvage his reputation. This week he will finally see his portrait, warehoused while the investigation dragged on, hung alongside those of other former Agriculture Secretaries. A White House spokesman said he didn't know if Clinton would attend the ceremony. Now, more than anything else, Espy wants to be the first witness at hearings next year on the future of the law that turned his life upside down for four years...
Larry, at 62 one year younger than his brother, says disgustedly that there is little truth to Monty's portrait of their father, a gentle and kindly man known around town for his generosity. Among former townspeople who back up this view is Joyce Renebome, an aunt roughly the brothers' age who often stayed overnight at the Roberts' house. She and her daughter Debbie Ristau are writing a protest book, Horse Whispers and Lies. Both Larry and Renebome say they never saw any beatings. Larry and Monty shared a bedroom and took baths together; Larry says he would have known...
...here we go--lawyers seducing judges in chambers for favorable rulings, associates and paralegals in after-hours orgies, female climbers sleeping their way to partnership, right? Not so. Even Stracher admits that "[w]e want to believe these stories because they paint a portrait of law firm life as racy and sexy...
Wolfe treats readers to a vivid, thoroughly realistic portrait of Atlanta life. In the chapter "Lay of the Land," for example, he takes readers from the wealthy Buckhead mansions north of Atlanta, down through the bustling business district and into the slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes...