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...best-known songs. Though assembled into a very loose narrative (young girl arrives in New York City; by the end she's sharing confessions with what looks like a therapy group), the show works best--marvelously--as a showcase for Nyro's idiosyncratic and influential music, a lush, emotionally vivid, rhythmically complex mixture of folk, rock, gospel and jazz...
...Reeves' summery I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me offers gentle warmth; and Cassandra Wilson's autumnal Sunny Side of the Street is laden with loss but colored with beautiful hues. Blanchard blows his way through these songs with charming, restrained invention and a pure, vivid tone...
...raid?did Kerrey's squad accidentally kill civilians or deliberately massacre them??mirrors the very nature of the war. For all his talk, Kerrey does not resolve the discrepancies: "Klann's got a memory of what happened. I've got a memory of what happened. They're both vivid. They're both awful." It's not a satisfying answer, especially from a politician revered for his candor. While much of the public has sympathized with Kerrey, this week he has to weather the hard charges being broadcast on 60 Minutes II, and his heroism is likely to be forever tainted...
...book's finest storytelling occurs in the vivid descriptions of Bir Hakeim. Vastly superior in manpower and artillery, Rommel predicted that it would take him 15 minutes to crush the 3,700 men stationed there. Instead, combat raged for a bloody 15 days, the Legion holding out despite waning supplies and unbearable heat. As defeat seemed imminent, Koenig ordered a risky nighttime breakout through enemy lines. The book reaches its hair-raising climax with Travers at the wheel, Koenig at her side, speeding over dunes between firing tanks, and ultimately leading 2,400 men to safety...
...raid--did Kerrey's squad accidentally kill civilians or deliberately massacre them?--mirrors the very nature of the war. For all his talk, Kerrey does not resolve the discrepancies: "Klann's got a memory of what happened. I've got a memory of what happened. They're both vivid. They're both awful." It's not a satisfying answer, especially from a politician revered for his candor. While much of the public has sympathized with Kerrey, this week he has to weather the hard charges being broadcast on 60 Minutes II, and his heroism is likely to be forever tainted...