Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bellow had expanded A Theft to a full-length novel, he could have developed all these interesting characters and fully organized the scattered plot. On the other hand, he could have easily condensed the book into an effective short story, focusing on Clara and eliminating useless characters and anecdotes...
...book opens in his hometown--Shillington, Pennsylvania--with Updike walking through the streets waiting for lost luggage and reminiscing. He introduces events and people from his childhood, cleverly returning to them throughout the work...
Updike smatters the book with events from his childhood in small town Pennsylvania, his years at Harvard and his life in New Ipswitch. The events center around six issues, arranged roughly chronologically, but analyzed from a mature perspective, revealing commentary...
...Updike's latest book takes what is important in his life and uses it to show what is important in any life...
...approved by Time and Warner shareholders, the merger would create a company that will have annual revenues of more than $10 billion and a market value of $18 billion. It would combine Time's magazines and its hardcover-book publishing, its cable programming and its cable-TV operations with Warner's movie, TV and video production, music labels, cable systems, paperbacks and comic books. The new company would include not only Time's stable of talented journalists, spread over two dozen magazines, but also Warner's Mad magazine, Superman comics and such recording artists as Madonna and U2. The businesses...