Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narcissist may appear relaxed and friendly, but inside, claims Lasch, he is desperate for a meaning beyond himself. He is also a pent-up competitor for the approval and rewards of a distant authority figure. To the author, this authority is now vested in the bureaucratic state, which offers neither moral guidance nor philosophical distinctions between good and evil...
Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
...career at Harvard as a professor, dean, provost and director of the University library spanned 50 years and established Buck as a leading author and administrator...
...years will loose a flood of screen biographies. Filming is completed on Heart Beat, the story of the three-way romance of Beat Generation Heroes Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac and Cassady's wife Carolyn. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play the Cassadys, and John Heard is the author of that hipster bible On the Road...
Another lovely legacy of old Russia is Chicken Kiev, a dish too seldom served in American homes or restaurants. Carl Jerome's The Complete Chicken (Random House; 247 pages; $12.95) should provide a rise in fare. The author, who has been a teaching and writing associate of James Beard's, ennobles the plebeian poulet in such great incarnalations as demi-deuil, en brioche and bollito misto, all sagely laid out. Jerome also offers some offbeat recipes for Southern fried chicken that will stir sizzling debate in Dixie...