Word: alain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alain De Botton won a lot of half-envious attention with his first book, On Love, a tale that seasoned an alan as Gallic as his name with an irony as British as his upbringing. The genius of the book, written when he was 23 and translated into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written...
...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Lina Lofaro, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Sidney Urquhart and Amy Yamner
...Alain De Botton, the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing author of "The Romantic Movement" (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
...dominating performances in the history of the America's Cup regatta, Team New Zealand's Black Magic I won the fifth straight of five races off the shores of San Diego and took home the world's premier sailing trophy. --By Melissa August, Christine Gorman, Belinda Luscombe, Michael Quinn, Alain Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
Thunder Gulch, the dimmest star in trainer D. Wayne Lukas' trio of starters, thundered out of a wall of 18 horses to win the 121st running of the Kentucky Derby. --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart