It's still full of exaggerations – too ready to set its cast bustling through extra dramatic business, from dropped goblets to carnival masks – but it's danced with energy.
What makes this so valuable a biography is that Streissguth, an associate professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, debunks the myths that have enveloped Cash, in large part owing to two autobiographies, "Man in Black" (1975) and "Cash" (1997), both full of exaggerations.
The five-year plans laying out the targets for the Soviet economy were full of exaggerations and fantasies, but the Soviets really did build a steel industry and an auto industry; they constructed canals and railroads; they mined nickel in the Arctic and gold in the Far East and coal in the Donbass.
The media coverage is full of exaggerations.
When his turn came, Easter told jurors that Peters' tale of suffering was full of "exaggerations and embellishments".
When Obama took office, officials decided to scale back the case after a career official said the complaint was full of hyperbole and exaggeration (although an Obama political official told a career DOJ employee that outright dismissal of the case was not an option).
The nightly television broadcasts from Ukraine, so full of wild exaggeration about Ukrainian "fascists" and mass carnage, are a Kremlin-produced "spectacle," he said, expertly crafted by the heads of the main state networks.
Mr. White's book is quite witty, full of comic exaggerations and asides, as close to the original as a wayward twin.
Everyone who was around at the time remembers the story, partly because it was full of blatant exaggerations and untruths and partly because, in retrospect, it seemed to mark the end of one era and the beginning of another.
