Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EM: Yes, yes, Reagan was the all-American. Well actually there's not as much of me in it as you'd think. The narrator is rather unlike me, he's mathematical and Germanic, I am neither of those things. Also well-born and elitist, which I am not. The...
The boy bands are getting greedy. Earlier last week, the Backstreet Boys initiated a legal tussle with Jive Entertainment, the same group that nurtured N'Sync. But now, N'Sync's former management is slapping them with a lawsuit. The stakes? If N'Sync loses, they'll lose the rights...
So what's an authorized biographer to do? Morris revisited Reagan's old haunts, and while at Eureka College, in Eureka, Ill., he stepped on an acorn and realized that he wanted to write about Reagan's whole life with the same closeness he could legitimately bring only to the...
But perhaps Morris' most compelling device is the comparison he draws between celestial stars and Reagan. He describes how in cosmology, as in psychology, the freak convergence of forces creates a centralized whirl. Momentum enters a field of expansion--nuclear particles seek release, and a man longs to embrace something...
The idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be...