Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media can do much in the age of AIDS," said Blumenfeld, co-author of a recent book about gay and lesbian life. "It can educate, stimulate discussion and it can also motivate people to get involved in AIDS work...
...gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak as a mouthy matriarch and Bob Burrus as her sly brother-in-law. The other play of promise, Charlene Redick's slight...
This reassembling and rearranging of historical detail is brilliantly successful: Schama's tale is vivid, dramatic, thought-provoking. Yet such is the current academic vogue for bloodless and pseudoscientific historiography that the author repeatedly feels a need to apologize for what he somewhat disingenuously calls a "mischievously old-fashioned piece of storytelling." If Schama's portrait of the revolution is often surprising in its closeup details, however, it is no less so in coloring the background imagery of the French society being overturned...
...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...
...that appears on public television this month. In lesser hands, such a project could have been a mind-numbing compendium of trivia about Brix levels and Appellations Controlees. As written and narrated by Hugh Johnson, Vintage: A History of Wine is an excursion into cultural history, enlivened by the author's pithy insights on ritual, commerce and warfare...