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...more titillating varieties of journalism: those who love the product would do well not to examine the process too closely. That is especially so with the faddish nonfiction genre of factual crime reconstructions, in which, for tactical reasons of getting the inside story, authors generally ally themselves either with careerist police detectives and prosecutors, or with pathetic victims cooperating in a further invasion of their privacy, or with criminals. Each bond can be unseemly, its results distorting...
...Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by Jane Wagner, was a solo dazzle and a terrific human comedy. Through its dozen or so characters, it provided a panoramic 20-year history of American womanhood. The heart of the piece is Lyn, earnest careerist-wife-mom, exhausted by achieving feminism's goals: "We can have it all. We already have it all. We just got it all at once." And the narrator is Trudy, bag-lady philosopher: "My mind didn't snap; it was tryin' to stretch itself into a new shape...
Rossi has always taken all sorts of risks -- ideological, stylistic, careerist -- yet has never overindulged his own quirks and perversity, the besetting sin of creative risk takers. He avoids easy solutions of either the overdecorative or hyperlogical kind. Instead he seeks to create buildings that are sublime and humane, the riskiest -- and noblest -- challenge...
...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...
...films show Lange playing by these implicit rules while bending them to suit. In Far North, she is Kate, a Manhattan careerist come home to Minnesota. Kate is a little addled, but less so than most of her relatives, and she possesses a loyalty to the whims of her dotty dad that is fierce enough to pass for independence. In Everybody's All-American she is Babs Rogers Grey, Louisiana U.'s Magnolia Queen of 1956, who blossoms into a principled businesswoman even as her marriage to a college football star withers like a corsage she forgot to press into...