This slim volume, a wistful reminiscence of his early life and career written by Baker in the late 1970s, unsentimentally restores the man behind his own tainted legend, and manages to do so with bracing candor and self-effacing humor.
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Much of " Welcome to Sarajevo " is concerned with Henderson's efforts to rescue a tough young girl ( played unsentimentally by Emira Nusevic, who grew up experiencing the war firsthand ) and has a simple, impressive decency.
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To build up a war chest for the increasingly expensive battles for cellular territories, he unsentimentally sold his family's cable television business for $ 755 million in 1986 and, with the help of Michael Milken, became a major issuer of high-yield bonds.
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Lynch reflects charmingly, lyrically, unsentimentally, sardonically on life as seen from the funeral home of the small town of Milford, Mich ., where, as he tells us early on, he buries " a couple hundred of my townspeople " each year.
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An exhibition that unsentimentally examines the modern mythology of craft _ a romance that goes back to the Arts and Crafts movement of the 19th century _ might be just the thing for this museum to undertake as a future installment of its " Defining Craft " program.
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While many U . N . employees still take an aesthetic view of their workplace's iconic architectural and decorative splendors, the gaze of people like Catherine Bertini, the under secretary general for management, is focused unsentimentally on how to shape up the building and pay for it.
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Or, as Jeb Nolan, general manager of a Denver-based children's talent agency, unsentimentally puts it, " As long as there are JonBenet Ramseys, there's going to be a need for a child to play JonBenet in the TV movie ."
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Even those who have internalized the 1970s mantra " let it go, " combined it with the'90s credo " we have to move on, " and have unsentimentally pared down their lives to the Restoration Hardware and Eddie Bauer essentials can appreciate this particularly painful form of separation anxiety.
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Love Child was praised by Simon Schama ( author of " Citizens " and " Landscape and Memory " ) as " so bravely written, so clear and intensely vivid, so unsentimentally honest, so deeply humane, " and by Salman Rushdie as " an extraordinary telling of an amazing life.
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It's true that " Leaving Las Vegas, " with Nicolas Cage's fearless performance as a man unsentimentally drinking himself to death, and the forthcoming " Georgia, " with Jennifer Jason Leigh as a floundering rock singer, expose the kind of truth that films don't often see.
