Word: canonization
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Making no claim to join the literary canon, Beverley has cleverly penned her way to a place of distinction in the niche of historical romance...
Armed with a comprehensive knowledge of the Hardy Boys canon and a working understanding of Cam Jansen, I started putting the wild adventures of teenage sleuth Fred Flight to paper. In one chapter, a ninja star ices Fred’s friend in the jungles; in another, terrorists blow up a gas station as Fred narrowly rolls away to safety...
...faculty in general were very anti-canon and all that stuff, so they had to produce something that didn’t look like an old-fashioned ‘Great Books’ course,” he said, “I would imagine that Derek would have a different take on what is necessary right...
...carry all of their interchangeable lenses, but those lenses guarantee better pictures. Forget megapixels - the only way to improve a picture is by using a lens big enough to capture all the light in your scene. The current leaders in the consumer digital SLR field are Canon, Nikon and Olympus. All the models I've tried out have their virtues, but the new Olympus E-Volt E-330 has a revolutionary new feature: live view. Line up your shots through the LCD before you shoot...
Good things come to those who wait--an adage Canon's Tsuneji Uchida, 64, knows well after 41 years at the Japanese electronics company. This month Canon promoted Uchida to vice president, a move that hints he may succeed outgoing president Fujio Mitarai. Canon enjoyed a record 34% profit increase last year, and Uchida, who guided Canon's drive to become the world's leading digital-camera maker, gets most of the credit. Uchida's next challenge: to capture 20% of the global flat-screen-TV market...