Word: approachability
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...money in that couch - more, in fact, than at 6:30 p.m. Despite being a perennial runner-up to NBC's Today show, GMA, under Sawyer, was a huge asset to ABC's bottom line. But the show has struggled recently, allowing CBS's The Early Show to approach it in the ratings. Without Sawyer that struggle gets even harder, and the show may have to reimagine itself as less anchor-driven. "I think what might happen now is there might be more sampling," says Zev Shalev, executive producer of The Early Show, which relies more on traditional news-reporting...
...early to know what Jim Murphy will do with the gaping hole on the GMA couch, but early signs suggest a conservative approach. "I don't think the wheel has to be reinvented," says Murphy, who promises no sudden moves. "We owe it to our audience to get this right," he says. Probably wouldn't be bad for the show either...
...Chip-Chip Gatherers” won literary prizes and critical approval, and although he would write only one more novel in his lifetime, his skill as a storyteller translated readily to a distinctive brand of non-fiction analogous to his brother’s approach as a novelist. “North of South” (whose title refers to the countries Naipaul visits being north of South Africa), his first book of non-fiction, often reads like a novel, albeit one that is as keenly concerned with history, politics, and sociology as it is with its characters. Including such...
...book, which sends the reader “hopscotching” from one chapter to another based on the loosest of associations. Such “make your own adventure”-style plotting can come off as familiar—even gimmicky—now that the approach has been co-opted by a subset of experiment-driven postmodern writers. Yet it speaks to Cortázar’s larger ambition to introduce a little anarchy into our reverence to literary tradition and to words, “those made-up pimps...
...This new approach is changing the rules of the game in the history of international relations,” added Cohen...