Word: authorly
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...Pacino's Heat: he's the sleuth chasing down a charismatic killer. It's also naive, wildly self-indulgent and weirdly mesmerizing. While Pacino wrangles the text with such fellow seekers as Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder, you get a clearer feel for the star than for the author. You come looking for Richard and find Al. "I don't like the word teach applied to this because I'm not a teacher," Pacino says. "But we hope to guide audiences into it without their even knowing how they got there." The quest took four years for Pacino: "I made...
...Owens, the protagonist of A Regular Guy, is an Oregon geneticist-tycoon vaguely modeled on Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (the author's brother). As a student he has had an affair with Mary, an earthbound girl, who becomes pregnant. In the book's signal exchange Tom tells her, "I can't have a baby now, Mare. I've just started something. I've got to give it time." Of course, Mary has just started something too, and that will be her destiny...
BORN: June 23, 1924, Newark, N.J. EDUCATION: New York U, B.S., 1947, M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1953 FAMILY: Wife, Alice Pressman; two children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: Army Air Corps, 1942-44 OCCUPATION: University administrator; professor; author POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Oneonta, N.Y., city council, 1958 ADDRESS: 7127 Fairway Bend Lane, Sarasota...
...elected to the Senate. But he doesn't take his incumbency for granted--he left his party's convention early to campaign in his home state--and in the Senate he's active on four committees. Having shaken the most radical of his liberal urges, Harkin was a co-author of the first bipartisan welfare-reform bill in Congress. But in a state with the largest percentage of citizens over age 85, and the third largest over 65, he promises to protect Medicare...
BORN: April 29, 1947, Wichita EDUCATION: U of Kansas, B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Anne; four children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Motivational speaker; author; Olympic athlete POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 826, Topeka...