Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart disease, alternative ways to combat allergies and AIDS. And Null is saying it all loudly. In an increasingly Balkanized medical community, fractured by all manner of alternative therapies, Null, a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public-health science, is leading one of the biggest breakaway republics of all. Author of more than 50 books, host of a daily radio show and creator of two popular self-help videos, Null is preaching his good-health gospel to a growing band of believers following his path to long life and wellness...
...there's another side to Null--a side that was first seen 20 years ago, when he was a contributing writer for Penthouse. One of Null's earliest stories was a blistering investigative piece called "The Great Cancer Fraud," in which he and a co-author accused the medical community of suppressing alternative cancer treatments in order to generate income for itself and the drug industry. Null's language was incendiary--condemning "the medical establishment's solid-gold cancer train"--but the magazine nonetheless ran the piece...
Null's hints that it may be possible not just to slow aging but to throw it into reverse raise hackles too. "It's ridiculous to talk about reversing aging," says Dr. Andrew Weil, a best-selling alternative-health author. "Aging is a one-way process...
Words won her the Pulitzer for The Shipping News, no question. The novel itself doesn't really track. The main character is gaumless in the first chapters and a functioning human male at the end, simply because the author has decreed a character transplant. But Proulx's language does not admit "yes, but" or "really?" When it works, which is most of the time, it sweeps aside all ideas, her own and the reader's, and allows no response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion...
This is a remarkable sentence. There's not a flabby or unnecessary phrase, and no evidence of virtuoso preening, of an author too appreciatively tasting her own words. "Spooled-out year" and "kicked down" suggest a man who tossed his mental baggage together in a hurry, and "strange ground" says something of where he is going. As always, when signs are this clear that an author knows her trade, the reader signs on for the journey...