Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telephoned Trent Lott to ask what he would think of a Dole-Kemp combination. "Lott was stunned," according to one of the Senator's advisers, but spoke warmly of Kemp. Meanwhile, Dole seemed more interested in the possibility of bringing Bennett aboard. Grownup without being elderly, the best-selling author of The Book of Virtues possessed not only the intellect but the gravitas to shoulder the Dole campaign into a debate on values, where Dole himself moves reluctantly. Bennett is a Catholic, and the Dole team badly wants the Catholic vote; he is a man with government experience--drug czar...
...every year, and apparently many of them are redefining their idea of rugged outdoorsmanship. Nowadays campers can languish in multiroom tents, cuddle up in adjustable-temperature sleeping bags, roast game hens in "outback ovens." "People don't want to go outdoors and get dirty and wet," explains Tom Huggler, author of The Camper's and Backpacker's Bible. "They want to be safe and comfortable, and they want a smooth experience." And they are willing to pay for it. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, sales of camping and backpacking equipment are expected to reach...
...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...
...many families," author William Zinsser wrote two years ago, "looking something up in Peterson is as habitual as looking something up in Webster." The analogy is apt. Peterson provided a visual vocabulary so useful and influential that it is hard to imagine how people ever looked at nature without...
...author knows this killing ground well, but too often his writing is fast and sloppy. A burning department store is "engulfed in its death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...