Word: acclaim
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...started in 1996 as a hip lifestyle magazine aimed predominantly at young men. Its first hard-hitting cover - a stark black-and-white image of former beauty queen Euvgenia Kalkandjieva, showing the scars she received in a near-fatal 1996 gang attack in downtown Sofia - sparked widespread outrage and acclaim. Egoist's reputation for uncompromising journalism took off. Today the magazine has a circulation of 12,000, huge for the Bulgarian market, but it reaches as many as 75,000, with copies changing hands as many as 15 times. According to editor Alexander Zhekov, 31, the readership consists mainly...
...sexual frolics, which he turns into stained-glass windows. Elsewhere he figures his work would be frustrated by scandalmongers and parsed to death by the politically correct. "In Belgium we're not pretentious enough to think we can change the world," says Delvoye. Much better, he figures, to gain acclaim by thumbing his nose...
...does not have a Dan album. On top of that, Steely Dan's songs are still getting major airplay 30 years after the band began recording. So what if they are skeevy older guys? I'm one myself, and I'm delighted they finally received the public acclaim they deserve. MICHAEL FRUEH Lima, Ohio...
What makes a playwright hot? An Academy Award nomination helps. Kenneth Lonergan has been churning out plays for years ("This Is Our Youth," "The Waverly Gallery") to mounting acclaim, but it was his screenplay for the Oscar contender "You Can Count on Me" that really put him on the map. I wish I could share in the enthusiasm for Lonergan's work. But his latest play, "Lobby Hero" (at Playwrights Horizons in New York City), shows off all his strengths and weaknesses, with the latter narrowly winning out once again...
...When she forms a band with Mikhael, we realize that she has finally learned to "sing" with someone else. And unlike her spiritual journey, Sharon's route to love with Mikhael is truly moving. Paradise Park is Allegra Goodman's second novel. She received a great deal of critical acclaim for her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, as well as for her two previously published collections of short stories, Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz. Goodman is clearly a talented writer. Her style allows her to move easily from colloquial dialogue to poetic descriptions. The characters in Paradise Park are wonderfully...