Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lippers were rumored to favor Goldhagen,the controversial author of the best-sellingHitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germansand the Holocaust, but Harvard officials saidthe donors' preferences would not affect thesearch committee's decision...
Camille Paglia is professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the author of three books...
...appeal to normal people, Franken recruited his old friend John Markus, who won an Emmy for his six years as writer and co-executive producer of The Cosby Show, to be his co-writer and executive producer. Franken, who knew a lot about political humor (he's the author of the best-selling Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations) but nothing about the half-hour format, says: "This would have been a nightmare without John." After three years of work, they're so close and eat so many meals together that Franken knows what to order...
...large, much of what motivates the story-line is the author's skilled development of Sarah and Terry's characters. Presented toward the beginning of the novel as a weak young girl, subject to fits of narcolepsy and an emotionally abusive relationship, Sarah undergoes a remarkable transformation throughout the course of the story. By the end, she has become more confident and aware--indeed, more fully understanding of her sexual identity, the trauma she has endured and the pain she has inflicted upon others. Similarly, Terry's metamorphosis from the brash, omniscient film critic to a journalist coming to grips...
...skilled as the author is in strengthening certain characters, his choice to weaken Dudden by exposing the doctor's neuroses seems not to fit with the rest of the story. As a student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate...