Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes a bit of corporate motivation to put these books back on our personal shelves, then...
...Harvard on a recent morning, a small dugout canoe made by his son resting on a nearby table, Howard Gardner talked about his work and the use others have made of it. A slender man with a soft face and hair flopping over his forehead, Gardner looks a bit like the concert pianist he might have been if he had pursued that career. After a long discussion of the merits of his theory, he tried to sum up his views. "Here's a credo I've never stated before," he said. "I'm sure there are lots of different intelligences...
...current poet laureate, and Sylvia Plath, whose stunning confessional poems written just before her 1963 suicide made her posthumously famous and, to many, a martyr-saint in the bargain. The Hughes-Plath story has fueled numerous books and endless, usually acrimonious, debates. Frieda Hughes, 38, grew up as a bit player in an engrossing literary drama...
Martial Law would never work if audiences didn't like and root for the main character. Of course, Hung's convex silhouette gives him personal appeal and makes his twirls and vaults all the more impressive. But he is also a fine actor, quietly funny and a little bit vulnerable. "We had to find somebody who is good in action and also has a heart," says Tong. They found him in Hung, America's least likely, most refreshing network star...
...Truman Show with lower ratings) about a wandering shaman who stumbles into fame on a home shopping network. But the real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability to create celebrities--and the viewer's need to embrace them--until it goes soft-hearted...