Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which he vowed to "mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...
...passed his or her courses, it's also unfair to let a student graduate who can't read or do math. "You've got to start sometime saying to kids that the tests of the real world are going to flunk you anyway," says E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of Cultural Literacy. "Tough love is the right kind of fairness. And you have to change the system with shock treatment at some point...
...Wieden & Kennedy (1996 billings: $525 million). Its gritty, muscular spots for Nike featuring Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan have helped the athletic-shoe maker uphold its market leadership; other clients include Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Miller Genuine Draft. President Dan Wieden counts acid-dropping Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, as a friend, which might give some hint as to the agency's creative mind...
...Kentuckian, he understands a gun culture, but not the Westerners' devout hatred of the Federal Government. By now he is a wholly passive observer, as Offutt's narration heads off at right angles to itself, and the militia crazies prepare to end the tale in righteous fury. The author can't do for the Montana Aryans what he did for the Rocksalt garbage crew, which is to see them sympathetically, from the inside out. No one else has managed this, either. It's a writing job still to be done...
...animator and director from 1931 until it closed in 1963. He directed 175 cartoons and created the Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Jr. and the original Speedy Gonzales. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was credited in 1944 by the Library of Congress as the author-artist of Bugs Bunny. The books you covered in this article did little to expose the artistic talent that was part of Warner Bros. Cartoons during the "Golden Age of Animation." ROBERT P. MCKIMSON JR. Anaheim, Calif...