Word: authorization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AMERICAN APPETITES by Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton; $18.95). A prolific author's powerful novel about a well-to-do married couple falling before an unearned fate...
...making Lonesome Dove, de Passe rejected the TV industry wisdom that westerns no longer draw a big audience. All three major networks initially turned down the rights to produce McMurtry's 843-page prairie odyssey. Even the author warned de Passe, "You probably wouldn't like it." Intrigued, de Passe eventually snared movie and TV rights...
...family-owned Louisville Courier-Journal and associated enterprises. Passion and Prejudice is the first account of the troubles written by a participant. Sallie Bingham, 52, is the rebellious and talented daughter regarded by many as the catalyst who precipitated the breakup of the family business, which grossed the author $62 million...
...author's account of confrontations with her father, chairman of the board Barry Bingham, and her brother, publisher Barry Bingham Jr., as well as her versions of family and office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...
J.F.K.'s Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, emerges as the principal spokesman for the overarching theme of both the TV series and the book. That theme is that nuclear weapons are not really weapons at all; they are political instruments whose very existence deters their own use. Author Newhouse calls the quest for strategic advantage "the chimera of the nuclear...