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...RICHARD S. BECK...
...them," says New York City and Miami cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Frederic Brandt. The machines used by professionals are expensive, but for dermatologists the payoff is huge: cash up front and no insurance bureaucracy to engage. "If you're really good at what you do," says La Jolla dermatologist Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, "you've got the potential to charge a premium, which you can't in the medical arena. And you get paid immediately...
...Richard Nixon it was the Checkers Speech. For Bill Clinton it was a sunglasses-and-sax appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Desperate political times call for desperate measures, and in the case of California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, that time is now. With only seven days until the election, he trails Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by as many as 18 points in the most recent polls...
...gift to readers lies in his largeness of spirit. It's born of decency and courage in laying his soul bare. The cumulative effect is a gritty grace: depth of character, tenderness and the masculinity that you find in the muscular work of novelists such as Philip Roth or Richard Ford. In form and heart, with its floating chronology and candor, Gurr's memoir springs from a sensibility close to that of the late Arthur Miller in his masterly Timebends. In it, he's telling two stories. There's the public history of shared experience, a critique of the times...
...show that should be seen if only for its unknowing spontaneity. After all, nobody wants to watch a production that knows too much about itself, and when this cast succeeded, they did so in ways that seemed to surprise themselves as much as the audience.—Reviewer Richard S. Beck can be reached at rbeck@fas.harvard.edu...