Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assign inspectors according to the size of an airline rather than the number of subcontractors it uses. The agency says it will change the way it monitors outsourcing, requiring stricter supervision and compliance in the future. "The regulatory climate is going to be quite changed," says John Strong, co-author of a book called Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World. "The real question is, What kind of reform is going to take place...
RECOVERING. STUDS TERKEL, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning author; from quintuple bypass surgery; in Chicago...
...clock and candlestick from "Beauty and the Beast," "Hunchback" animates the inanimate for comic relief. Three gargoyles are Quasi's only friends in the cathedral. Like Calvin's Hobbes, the Gargoyles are alive only to Quasimodo. They character's are a small tribute to the original Hunchback's author, as two of the three are named Vic and Hugo...
...many novels manage to combine high literary aspirations with wide popular appeal. E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News (1993) did so triumphantly. Critics loved Proulx's intense, sensuous prose. Readers for pleasure eagerly riffled through the pages because the author made them wonder what would happen next to the central character, a grieving widower who takes his two daughters and tries to start a new life on his family property in Newfoundland. After this Pulitzer-prizewinning performance, Proulx could count on her next novel churning up much anticipation...
...couple of decades ago, Tin Pan Alley moved to the South and changed its name to Nashville. There the division of musical labor still largely applied: singers sang and songwriters wrote. In the past few years one distinct author's voice has emerged from the throats of Martina McBride (Independence Day), Patty Loveless (You Don't Even Know Who I Am) and Trisha Yearwood (On a Bus to St. Cloud). The composer is Gretchen Peters, and her own first album, The Secret of Life (Imprint), offers 10 fresh reasons to elect her to the country songwriter's Hall of Fame...