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...reader is reminded that these statistics represent those black males who were "lucky" enough to have their cases brought to trial. Many, many others were the victims of lynch mobs and were often reported to have "admitted" their guilt before meeting their deaths...
...People" section also shows us how the people dress--or don't. Just to keep reader interest piqued only once in a while the section sports a photo of a scantily clad Cheryl Tlegs of Christle Brinkley wearing a see-through bathing suit--or nothing...
...stuff of glamorous gossip-People, Us, The National Enquirer, and others. Why don't i read them? These mindless mags may contain the same tasty tidbits Time brings us, but they suffer from another peculiarly American phenomenon, overkill. There's just too much there, and besides, the average Time reader has qualms about sporting a copy of this week's Enquirer on the coffee table. There are image problems...
King repeatedly reveals his own life-long obsessions with fame and wealth, with Cadillacs, beautiful women, and horse races. "Miami was a personality town," he says in the very first paragraph of the book, "and I was a personality." Though King claims to be over his obsession, the reader wonders whether this book about his life with the stars is only another manifestation of his drive...
...time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant, 35, a former Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took...