Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salman Rushdie did not ask to become the free-speech hero to the literary world; he is too complex a writer to wave any flags. Rushdie was transformed into the world's most famous living author by the Ayatolla Khomeini's 1989 fatwah, a chilling text, and perhaps a more revolutionary piece of writing than Rushdie's novel...
They will replace a distinguished quintet of overseers which includes two-time Overseers President Theodore M. Hesburgh, who is president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame; Michael Crichton '64, author of the best-selling book Jurassic Park; and John A. Armstrong '56, a former vice president...
...been following out a policy established before his tenure [but] he helped author it," Ehrlich said. "In terms of PBH, he probably had a fair amount of background...
...Bradley's new memoir, Time Present, Time Past (Knopf; 442 pages; $26), a prologue to that candidacy? The book has an impressive first printing (100,000 copies), and the author is committed to a 20-city publicity tour. Nonetheless, says Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The book is something I had to do for my soul." Not that that precludes a campaign for the White House. But Washington insiders doubt Bradley will run, mainly for the compelling reasons he cites here when discussing his 1992 decision, arrived at after much agony, not to challenge Bill Clinton...
...novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action. Except for Essie's adventures in Hollywood, the lives and deaths of the various Wilmots transpire at a far remove from silver screens. And for all its author's labors toward unity, In the Beauty of the Lilies remains an assemblage of separate and unequally inspired fragments...