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...access to the day-to-day activities of a sitting President to prepare the leader's definitive biography. The news last week was that Author Edmund Morris, 45, who won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, will have the privilege of being Ronald Reagan's shadow for the rest of his term. In the past three weeks, Morris has attended White House conferences, interviewed Reagan and several of his aides and even accompanied the President to Geneva aboard Air Force...
...Crockett bag the bad guys. Catch Bob Geldof on the news shows; he must be so busy raising money for famine relief in Africa that he lacks the time and inclination to drag a blade across his jaw. Grab some rays at a tennis tournament and scrutinize the botanical shadow on Bjorn Borg's face. Take a trip down to the local triplex: Mickey Rourke, Timothy Hutton and Christopher Lambert are scruffing up the screen; Mel Gibson, as Mad Max, is atomizing his enemies; Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris are rounding up all those POWs and MIAs in Asia...
...short years. Shenzhen is just that place, a 126-sq.-mi. serpentine swath opposite Hong Kong that still has the raw look of a city halfway between blueprint and reality. Apartment high-rises border unpaved roads, while open trenches pose a hazard to the unwary. In the shadow of the International Trade Center, at 54 stories China's tallest building, are mounds of dirt coughed up by the excavation. Construction cranes scratch the sky, the air is full of dust, and the noise is worthy of a Grateful Dead concert...
...quoting his quattrocento idols: that was the natural use of a heritage. He took from Pisanello, Laurana, Cellini and Desiderio da Settignano; the pose of Farragut is Donatello's St. George without a shield. Still, any academic hack can redo a prototype; Saint-Gaudens' peculiar gift was to shadow these massive and well-known shapes with the tiny subliminal events of a dreaming hand. In 1880 he could give Dr. Henry Shiff's bronze beard a labile, gratuitous beauty of texture akin to Monet; while, seen close up, the stubbled, worn face of Sherman is not a military mask...
...wouldn't be wrong to call In the Shadow of the Law a legal thriller, but it would sell the book short. There are suspenseful, devious plots aplenty--one about a last-minute death-row appeal, another about a corporation's dodging blame for an industrial accident--but it's Shadow's cast of characters, largely overworked junior lawyers, that will keep you up at night. Roosevelt (a descendant of Theodore and a former Supreme Court clerk) writes about the law more passionately and entertainingly than anyone since Scott Turow...