Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previously unfruitful Martha-K Mart association. Since 1987, Stewart has been a mostly decorative "life-style consultant" for the retailer. But the arrangement, like K Mart's bottom line, foundered badly as competitors like Wal-Mart and Target flourished. When Stewart joined K Mart, she was the author of several successful books on entertaining and wedding planning, and the company, based in Troy, Mich., was the nation's biggest retailer, with sales of $23.99 billion and a stock price of $14.88. Back then, Wal-Mart was a distant second, with sales of $11.9 billion, and its stock...
...that seems to have begun as an investigation into the ways in which the region's history has been written since ancient times by the scarcity of water. That would have been logical and achievable--a good, sensible subject with a reasonable stopping point. But by his own account, author Alex Shoumatoff, a veteran writer about distant parts for the New Yorker, spent too much time on the project for a neat, orderly account, traveled too far, read too many books, heard too many semitruths and beguiling lies from too many plausible liars and improbable truth tellers. He also lived...
...also an impressive exercise in graceful journalism. Chapters on the Anasazi and Havasupai tribes, for instance, and the Jesuits and Franciscans, don't read like potted histories ploddingly typed from a writer's file cards. There's no dust in this desert history. Colonizers and colonized live in the author's mind; ideas about them boil up, and off he goes in pursuit...
...author spends time at Big Mountain, Hopi territory still settled by refusenik Navajos, "way out in the Arizona desert, off the modern grid." A traveler who has returned from the back of beyond may be tempted to claim more acceptance by the locals than was really the case, but Shoumatoff plays it straight. He made some headway and won some trust, but he reports that the wall Navajos have erected against white wannabes and sight-seeing Anglo journalists is very real...
...inhaling--that's the old Bill Clinton. Now it seems Bill's gone teetotal. Never much of a drinker, last week the President faked sipping wine during two toasts at a U.N. luncheon. A breach of etiquette? No, says Letitia Baldrige, former chief of staff to Jackie Kennedy and author of More than Manners: "If you bring the glass to your mouth, who's going to know...