Word: essayish
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...declaring, ?Here starts something new... a Sunday newspaper that comes in a tube.? Something new for television, not for newspapers and magazines. ?CBS SM? has its closest equivalent, and direct inspiration in the Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late middle-age (though it keeps in excellent shape). I don?t mean to shove this notion...
...November, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster will publish "Introducing Halle Berry" by prolific TIME senior editor Christopher John Farley. The book will be an essayish bio on the life of Halle Berry, the history of black women in Hollywood and the significance of Berry's Oscar win. Farley, who is also the author of "Aaliyah: More than a Woman" and "My Favorite War: a Novel," first profiled Berry in 1991 when she was in her first major role, the movie "Strictly Business" and has checked in with her from time to time...
Reading & Riding. Jackson reviews five books a week in his daily Chronicle column; he also edits the Sunday book page. His reviews are calm, clear, essayish. He reads the books commuting to & from his home near the University of California campus in Berkeley, and in bed before going to sleep. (He is careful to vary his schedule of commuting trains so that acquaintances will not interrupt his reading.) Youthful-looking, smooth-featured, with clear blue eyes and invariably wrinkled clothes, he has a perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before...
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