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This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write...
...city in a drop-top convertible cruising for Mr. Irresistible: "I need to make you happy/You just so black and nappy/Come here, and make it snappy." For the sequel to that excursion, skip forward to "Gitty Up," in which the requisite beefy baritone promises to make our girls "sweat till you drench your blouse and your skirt." Our Salt 'N' Pepa do not "perspire...
...said of the intricate new Redman original, conceding its difficulty. "Off Center" is marked by a relatively simple melody repeated over a complex, busy rhythm figure, which combine to make the time signature of the head of the piece somewhat unclear. While the band had been tastefully restrained up till then, the solo section of "Off Center" gave the band members, particularly Blade, a chance to really come alive. Redman saw fit to change the timbre of his playing and force honks and cries from his horn. Blade got his first solo, and his rhythms seemed to pulsate through...
Easily more nourishing than a barrel of biscuits is this fine, most definitive of lexicons. Logophiles can munch happily on it till the year 2000, when the third and final volume is expected to arrive...