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Nevertheless, reviewers say that Guralnick tells Elvis' story "with eloquent sorrow and muted poignance" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to check out the Complete Elvis Presley Database, which has photos, a discography, and links.)
The colors are muted and staid, the illustrations as innocuous, impeccable, and dispassionate as those you would find in an economics textbook.
Now, however, economists are in trouble again--trouble that is a sort of muted version of what happened in the 1930s.
The kinds of things Johnson reveled in--locker-room talk and stiff belts of whiskey, the "muted grays" of the Senate's well-turned compromises, even his own hard-earned influence and wealth--were the kinds of things against which the Harvard-educated Kennedy defined his very identity.
Again, the medium is toys--heroic cowboys and occasional Indians--bathed this time in muted colors.