Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reviewing Naomi Wolf's latest treatise, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (Random House; 286 pages; $24), a number of critics have complained that the feminist author writes as a pop-culture illiterate. This is not entirely so, for surely no one else has ever found so much significance in the work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor...
...women, though, who steal the show. It may be because of author George Fourth's genius for comedy, and a book that dictates the relative importance of the wives--not the husbands. But a stellar cast doesn't hurt...
...Senates budget proposal will allow parents and recent graduates to deduct one-half of the interest paid on undergraduate student loans from their Massachusetts income tax. As the chief sponsor and author of the student loan tax cut, I am pleased that the Senate has taken a leadership role on an issue that will help working families afford a college education...
...first is an alarming account, told with remarkable calmness by author Nichols, of his single-handed sail from Falmouth, England, most of the way, but not all the way, to Maine. As Nichols puts to sea in dodgy weather, the reader in his armchair considers omens (a necessary and enjoyable preliminary to the sport of reading about other people's mad adventures). Nichols is a highly experienced professional sailor, and Toad, his engineless 27-ft. sloop, is as strong and seaworthy as he and his ex-wife, whom he calls J., could make it. But now the marriage has broken...
...harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...