European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books reviews to be loved by Berry Gordy Warner books. In 1964, Beny writes his record company motown was starting to explode with hits like danc ing in the Street and baby love. From 65 to 68, he writes motown could do no wrong at Christmas time in the incredible year of 1968, motown songs held five of the top 10 positions. By consolidating publishing management and distribution Berry washable to keep everything in the family. Gordy s vision of Success was expressed most Viv idly in his nurturing of Diana Ross. She was the vehicle for Gordy s assault on the mainstream the one who could  the Power nightclub and Lias vegas audiences with standards and Broadway material the one who shone so brightly on television. She was also for several years the love of my  after they decided to break it off in 1971 she bore his child Singer Rhonda Ross. Gordy has seven Chil Dren by other women. In 1988, Gordy sold motown to Mca records for $61 million a move Many in the Black Community considered a betrayal. He retains Jobette the pub Lishing company i had three choices explains Gordy. Sell out bail out or fall out. I chose to sell out. I refer to it As moving it to stronger hands. " David Herndon new Day making Malcolms Ali myth and meaning of Malcolm x by Michael Eric Dyson Oxford University press. Dyson director of the Institute of african Ameri can research and professor of communication stud ies at the University of North Carolina tries to explore some of the uses to which the memory of Malcolm x has been put. As the Book progresses Dyson moves further an further away from his subject using Malcolma x increasingly As a simple springboard for pronounce ments of his own pronouncements on everything from president Clinton s handling of racial issues to the role of rap music in contemporary culture. By the time the Reader has finished the volume Malcolm x has virtually disappeared from View re ceding once again into the misty realm of myth. Michiko Kakutani new York times Leonard Ber Stelni a life by Cryle Secrest Knopf / Secrest wades forthrightly into Bernstein s mess Ofa personal life not overlooking such titillating specifics As a time when Lenny s wife Felicia caught he husband in bed with a unimpressive looking Young Man named Tom Cothran who for a time Bernstein declared the love of his life. Bernstein lifelong pull toward men was an understandable complication in the Bernstein marriage but Felicia seems to have been a profoundly flexible wife at least until the Cothran incident shortly after which she and Bernstein split up after 25 years. The affair like Many others with Young men eventually Dis solved and Bernstein moved Back with his family a least for the time being Secrest has Given us in Short one More take on Bernstein the celebrity Bernstein the naughty self destructive sufferer and to a lesser extent Bernstei the paradoxical culture hero. What we still need is a study of Bernstein the artist. Steve Metcalf Hartford courant the Oxford Book of the supernatural Edi Ted by d. J. Enright Oxford University press Many of the selections Are passages from novels Short stories poems and plays some familiar other snot Many Are take from historical accounts and re searches into supernatural Phenomena. An alarming number of the sources Are English Shakespeare contributes 13 supernatural episodes. As the charac Ter Claire says in the excerpt from the novel a nest Sofnin Riesby John Ashbery and James Schuyler we have no such thing in France the supernatural is exclusively an Anglo Saxon  Fredri Koeppel commercial Appeal Trinitie by Nick Tosches Doubleday Tosches drenches his narrative with mobsters Rich warped musings on sex death loyalty family. The Catholic Church and the loss of innocence an ethics. His descriptive prose however is erratic. Owen Mcnally Hartford courant  Berry Gordy gets a award from Michael Jackson at the Jackson family honors show in february. All our yesterday by Robert b. Parker delacorte. V. Although this Book is not part of the immensely popular Spenser series Parker has not let anyone Down. It has All his familiar trademarks unstoppable Forward propulsion tight plotting dialogue As spare and polished As a crowbar who could resist Book that starts it was sullen and Gusty and snowing like hell when i went to see Grace Judith Dunford Nesda Northern Ireland the Choice by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden Penguin. Boyle and Hadden who have written influential books about Northern Ireland show that the Majo Choice is separation or sharing in the province. Jim Drew Toledo Blad Etwo seconds under the worlds terror Cornea to America the conspiracy be Hind the world Trade Center bombing by Jim Dwyer David Kocieniewski Deidre Murphy and Peg Tyre Crown. As the authors of this Book expertly demonstrate the fatal bombing of the world Trade Center in new York City on feb. 26,1993, could easily have been averted. This Book comes at a key moment in Ameri Ca s War on terrorism the trial of the second round of conspirators is due to Start shortly this Clear Eye Book will be invaluable to anyone straining to under stand it. And As recent events in Israel show the danger of Muslim extremism is downplayed at society s peril. " " Jeffrey Goldberg Nesda politically Correct bedtime stories by James finn Garner Macmillan. Really Garner wonders do we have to sweat the self image of the seven dwarfs must we give the big bad Wolf the Benefit of the doubt is it Hope Lessly Bourgeois for Cinderella to be saved from de Spair by a Man Type individual called a Prince Fred Bruning Nesda killing Custer by James Welch with Paul Stek Ler . Norton. What does it say about american lore when virtually everyone agrees that there were no survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn there were hundreds of survivors they were called Sioux and Cheyenne Why do hundreds of books scores of movies and a National Monument celebrate let s face it a loser Why were Are the Victor scorned As Bloodthirsty Savages while no less than Walt Whitman in a glad triumphal sonnet Laud the vanquished the loftiest of life upheld by death if you switch the focus writes Welch the Story becomes infinitely  Welch switches the focus All right. With a vengeance. Half Indian acclaimed novelist fools Crow Etc Welch takes sides and Why not Plain an simple the 1876 Battle was part of the . Plot to eradicate the indians god s righteous decree said Horace Greeley. 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