Word: authorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...author of more than 50 books and 1,200 articles, reviews and essays since 1961, Coles says he "prefers using words that I was seeing and feeling rather than the words that I use when I write in technical journals...
...Leonard (Get Shorty, Rum Punch) has written what could be called a historical novel. If all its characters seem so turn-of-the-millennium contemporary that you half expect one of them to pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses...
...tale, is as traditional as Kabuki drama. There are arrogant Spaniards who need shooting and a 20-year-old American beauty named Amelia, a professional mistress, who needs career counseling. But Theodore Roosevelt, it should be said, does not make an appearance--a sign of restraint that justifies the author's high reputation...
...neurotic writer with a penchant for antidepressants, prostitutes and incorporating the details of his personal life into his literature. For the first time in his life, he's suffering from writer's block--get it? Harry...Block. Via flashbacks and vignettes representing Block's fiction, the film relates the author's psychosexual hangups, difficulties with fidelity and issues with religion. The movie is loosely structured around Block's repeated attempts to find someone to accompany him on a trip to his old college, where he's being honored as a literary hero despite being expelled years earlier...
Leslie W. Abramson, a professor at the University of Louisville and the author of Judicial Disqualification, applied this doctrine to the Lessig case, saying Lessig's impartiality "might reasonably be questioned...