Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANNE ROIPHE AUTHOR AND THE MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS...
Nelson and current Vice President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 also performed well, but with less crisp and definitive answers than Haynes. The co-author of last year's Nelson-Grimmelmann Act started strong, hunkering down to the podium and gazing out at his listeners with conviction, but lost some connection with the audience as the night wore on. Rawlins, whose play-it-safe attitude and serious demeanor reflected the attitude of someone who's practically in heir apparent, appeared a little too packaged at times but nevertheless enumerated her accomplishments clearly...
Other panel members included renowned Israeli poet and author Haim Gouri and Williston Professor of Law Robert H. Mnookin '64, a negotiation specialist...
Publishers too began pinching themselves tentatively, wondering where they were. They have known for decades that TV exposure sells books, but experience suggested that doing it successfully was a matter of getting the right author in front of an appropriate niche audience: this one on Today or Good Morning America, that one, God and the producer Don Hewitt willing, on 60 Minutes. And maybe public TV's Charlie Rose would give a few minutes to the stray novelist. But now Oprah had altered the equation by pushing a first novel to her massive viewership...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...