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...protecting Strike, or did he somehow really shoot Darryl? -- would be the focus, and the detective would sort it out. Here, despite Rocco's efforts, nothing becomes clear, and Dempsy's new accumulations of refuse obscure last week's stains. Instead of a solution, Price leaves us with a sheaf of memorable sketches: Dempsy's citizens, peering at the streets from behind the broken panes of their lives. This is a superb reportorial novel, a fine job of writing and witnessing...
...interpret suffering, for her faithful? Last we heard, Lennox was agreeably married, but that's not our business; besides, it's irrelevant to the authenticity of the pain in her strong and subtle alto pipes. What she has done in Diva is to marry that voice to a sheaf of memorable songs that map the doleful soul of a modern woman. This is angst for art's sake, something she can believe in and make believable while the mike and the camera are on. At home, if it pleases her, she can watch TV, eat ice cream, be happy...
Once he erased it, all the strands of our foreign policies knotted together. Self-interest rose to the defense of our oil supply. Saddam's treatment of Kuwait and his casual lobbing of Scuds into Israel stirred Bush to outrage. Our diplomats had rounded up a sheaf of United Nations resolutions to give Operation Desert Storm a firm foundation of paper...
...sheaf of related stories called The Lost World (boyhood is what has been lost) gives a nicely measured picture of a kindly, weighty father and a narrator-son who has not yet achieved gravitas. But the entirely adult stunner of an otherwise boyish book is a superb story called Smoke, about a failing baseball pitcher who attends the funeral of a teammate. We don't learn why the teammate died, or why the pitcher has lost his stuff, his smoke. All that matters is the single word with which the pitcher answers two terrible questions. The first is asked...
DICK GEPHARDT (5-4). House majority leader dusted off sheaf of populist poses from '88; qualifies as first major Democrat to urge gulf caution. He's looking for a well-funded starting position...