Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right." Critics of Sea World, who argue that park officials could simply release their captive killer whales if they truly cared about freeing animals, contend J.J. was little more than a cetacean Spuds MacKenzie. "The J.J. event was purely driven by corporate image needs," says Susan Davis, author of the book Spectacular Nature, a critical examination of Sea World. "People are no longer as tolerant of alcohol advertising, which means Anheuser-Busch needs another way to build a positive association with nature, and that's what mega-event animal saving provides." Indeed, last week the crane operator preparing to hoist...
...Emily's, her parents were only too eager to bring her up to speed on the scientific method and statistical analysis. Moreover, mother and stepfather, along with Dr. Stephen Barrett, chairman of an outfit called Quackwatch Inc., helped her write the paper. Linda, in fact, is credited as lead author...
...first movie. The plot of Marx's screenplay, which came to be called "Who Laughs Last," centers around a joke printed on the inside of a Laffy Taffy candy wrapper--a joke so egregiously unfunny that a group of young Laffy Taffy devotees vow to find and kill the author...
Last evening's event marks the author's first stop on a 10-city promotional tour. She said Harvard alumni clubs have been very helpful in setting up readings for her in each of the 10 cities...
...girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that in the end Oyster gratified his inflamed ego with mass suicide. The author's story, of course, is a rough match with remembered headlines--of Waco, of Heaven's Gate and the rest. But the mad Oyster, dead before the narrative begins, and the hate-filled mining town, dead as the last page turns, have their own bitter, brilliant reality in this impressive novel...