Word: author
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Real life is much more complicated. After all, how many of us, while debating the meaning of an author's work, actually can summon the author at the snap of our fingertips to resolve the dispute? Alternatively, how many of us have ever had an author explicitly reject our interpretation of his or her ideas...
What bothered me more than my destroyed thesis, however, was a larger question: What was my scholarship worth? Sure, I had amply demonstrated that similarities exist between Ras and Garvey, but the causal link had been shattered by the only guy who had a right to do so--the author himself. I was wrong, and my paper was worthless...
...especially not with the work in question. Reviewers won't be allowed to pass judgment until the official opening in two weeks (McNally, author of Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion!, is still tinkering). But a first look reveals a play far less incendiary than charged...
...pages into her new novel, Walker stages a highly illustrative scene of lesbian sex. Is it fiction or is it gynecology? A moot question when confronting an author whose continuing crossover success depends on reaching an expanding audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first...
...that California wines did two decades ago. Chilean Cabernets, especially, are "softer than California and yet more accessible than Bordeaux," says Wine Spectator senior editor Thomas Matthews. "If this keeps up, Chile could be, sooner than many expected, something more than a perennial wine bridesmaid." Even British wine author Auberon Waugh--whose novelist father Evelyn Waugh considered New World wine an oxymoron--gushes over a collection of 1996 and '97 reds from the Montes winery in Chile's Curico Valley. Chilean wines, he says, "are showing magnificent and rich concentration, but also subtlety and changing flavors...