Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...include Russian soldiers, since Moscow agreed last week to put them essentially under NATO control.) "We're afraid Clinton will cut some kind of deal and our troops in Germany could be down there [in Bosnia] a few hours after an agreement is signed," says the bill's author, Colorado Republican Representative Joel Hefley. Without those U.S. troops, any accord achieved will probably be impossible to enforce. Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, he can't lock up a recalcitrant Congress at an Air Force base in Ohio...
Gotlieb, however, shone as a true source of comic relief as August's hypochondria sister Delia, an acclaimed author with a scandalous history. Her character was supposed to be livelier than everyone else's during her scenes, and she realized her potential without being melodramatic. Neither she nor Lewis had many spoken lines, but they never tried to overshadow their fellow cast members. They slipped into their roles with a familiarity and understanding that was not reached by anyone else in the cast. Truly, Lewis's quiet but sharp one-liners and Gotlieb's outspoken, often obnoxious punch-lines brought...
...Author Neil Postman called for a spiritual rejuvenation of the public school system last night in a speech about his book, The End of Education, at the Graduate School of Education...
...idea of teaching students how to make a living, not a life, has no transcendent meaning," the conservative author said...
...lyrics are mostly about sex, yet they have a literate, sometimes explicit edge; they are drawn from poetry written by Peter's aunt, Erica Jong, the feminist author. Dear Anne Sexton, for example, takes the form of letters between two women who shared the same man. It gets racy, but never formulaic...