GOODBYE, GINGHAM APRON
Whatever you do, don't call her a farmer's wife. The image of the gingham-aproned lady tossing feed to the chickens but concentrating on the biscuits and gravy while the man...
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READER WILL LONG REMEMBER THIS VIVID ACCOUNT OF `THE ALAMO’
A LINE IN THE SAND: The Alamo in Blood and Memory By Randy Roberts and James S. Olson Free Press, 356 pages, $26 The story was told for years by...
A LESSON IN HOPE AND COMING TO GRIPS WITH A MOTHER’S DEATH
MY MOTHER'S GHOST By Fergus M. Bordewich Doubleday, 326 pages, $23.95 Fergus M. Bordewich begins "My Mother's Ghost," his excruciating remembrance of his mother's sudden, gruesome death and the shadow...
FEMALE-FRIENDLY FOODS HIT MARKET
In the battle of the sexes, women are becoming armed with food products designed for them, from chocolate calcium chews to oatmeal fired up with extra folic acid. In the...
`DAY LATE’ DOESN’T COME UP SHORT IN RICHNESS OF ITS CHARACTERS
A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT By Terry McMillan Viking, 432 pages, $25.95 Reading Terry McMillan's fifth novel, "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," you may initially feel...
FDR DURING THE WAR YEARS: AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY
FDR: The War President, 1940-1943 By Kenneth S. Davis Random House, 928 pages, $39.95 According to some who knew Franklin Roosevelt well, Kenneth S. Davis writes, the president -- far...
RAVENS WARNED THIS WOULD BE SUPER STINKER
America deserved much better than this mess. Two teams dueling nearly three quarters in a punt-till-you-puke contest. Kerry Collins falling off the quarterbacking wagon again. The New York Giants reverting...
REUNITED GERMANY LEAVES GRASS MUSING ABOUT PAST AND FUTURE
TOO FAR AFIELD By Guenter Grass Translated by Krishna Winston Harcourt, 658 pages, $30 The hoopla surrounding the breaching of the Berlin Wall, in November 1989, and German reunification seems...
AMERICANS DEVELOP A TASTE FOR KITSCH
Standards. What has happened to standards? The governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, and his family, are living in a triple-wide while renovations on the Governor's Mansion are being made. The...
HOLLYWOOD NORTH
This city is one of those that always reminds you of someplace else. Detroit. Philadelphia. New York. Chicago. Even Paris. And now, Hollywood. If you happen to be wandering the...