Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incensed by a New York Times book review that he got off at Times Square to confront the critic face to face. Kazin's thoughtful critiques continued in On Native Grounds, his seminal 1942 appraisal of American writers, and in countless other essays, reviews and memoirs dwelling in depth on New York, Judaism and above all literature, the three topics dearest to Kazin's heart...
Pressed by critics and lobbies, television has begun to include more realistic story lines about sex and its possible consequences. TV writers and producers are turning to groups like the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-policy think tank, for help in adding more depth and accuracy to stories involving sex. Kaiser has consulted on daytime soaps General Hospital and One Life to Live as well as the prime-time drama ER on subjects ranging from teen pregnancy to coming to terms with a gay high school athlete. Says Matt James, a Kaiser senior vice president: "We're trying...
...seen as backhanded praise of Disney's own recruiting: headhunting as the sincerest form of flattery. In many circles Eisner is considered the best executive coach in the business--a boardroom Rockne who delivers wins in the form of profits. Says a spokesman: "This is testimony to the depth and breadth of our management talent...
...launched a journalistic experiment. We pooled our resources (and mixed our media) to create a weekly television newsmagazine--Impact: CNN and TIME on Special Assignment. Though our modes of expression may be different, we found that we have quite a lot in common, sharing a deep devotion to in-depth reporting and analysis...
...nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...