Word: blurbing
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Forty years later and Citizen Kane hitsthe top of the AFI 100 charts. Universal Studiosheadlines its Universal Noir tour with a restoredversion of the famed director's film, Touch ofEvil, and the accompanying blurb: "'UniversalNoir' is the first of what Universal Studios hopeswill be an on-going series of classic films fromour library, organized by genre or director orstar, which will enable audiences to enjoy atheatrical moviegoing experience the wayfilmmakers intended." There's some hope left. Butbefore we get too excited and lose sight of whythe restoration effort had to occur in the firstplace, just remember what Welles...
...Complicated" appears in a blurb on the jacket of Summer of Deliverance (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $24), Christopher Dickey's loving, ruthless portrait of his father, the poet-novelist James Dickey. In the blurb, the novelist Pat Conroy writes, "If there ever lived a more complicated father, husband, and writer than James Dickey, I have not heard...
...wouldn't stop at the President:/ she'd take the Pentagon by storm/ in halter dress and rhinestone extras," Garrison writes in "An Idle Thought." (It could be retitled "Oh, How I Would Have Put You to Shame, Monica Lewinsky.") Garrison's efforts won her a book blurb from feminist columnist Katha Pollitt, who described the poems as "brave, elegant, edgy...
...says Hansen. Each contains 101 stories ("That's a spiritual number," he says), and few of those last longer than three pages--perfect for attention spans ground down to nothing by TV. No one will mistake Chicken Soup for literature, and in case you miss the point, the cover blurb from Robin ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") Leach is a clue that you're not buying Middlemarch. From book to book, the tone is unvarying: earnest, unadorned and ruthlessly uplifting. The stories are gathered under recurring rubrics--"On Love," "A Matter of Attitude," "Live Your Dream," "Learning to Love...
...article on Pforzheimer House was so off-base that it was comical. Not only was it the size of a tater tot but it had about as much substance as a tater tot. A brief blurb about Club Pfoho does not do our House Committee justice. The time and dedication our HoCo puts into making the House a lively place is second to none. In addition to the four "Club Pfoho" dances in the past year-and-a-half, where is mention of Gotcha, the Roommate Game and our own Drag Night? Not to mention Thursdayfest and the Battle...