Word: flaunts
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...going on; it inevitably requires the changing of an open mind as new evidence comes to light. Faith, on the other hand, is the blind acceptance of "explanations" without any hard evidence. It is preposterous for a closed-minded adherent of a prepackaged, supernatural "origin of species" theory to flaunt science's admitted lack of omniscience as support for a totally irrational dogma. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...BEATTIE'S NEW NOVEL, HER fifth, is enough to make one wince. Another You (Knopf; 323 pages; $24) is set in academia, a trap for many novelists--too many temptations to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. Beattie, with her penchant for artsy or newsy allusions, is caught right away. In the opening five pages are references to Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissinger and Marianne Faithfull. Marshall Lockard, the New England college professor who is at the novel's center, meets an early challenge thus: "He did something he never...
...novel focuses on the emotional messes that ensnare New England college professor Marshall Lockard and, before him, his father Miles. "It's enough to make one wince," says TIME's Martha Duffy. "Setting her story in academia -- a trap for many novelists -- Beattie readily succumbs to the temptation to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. In the opening five pages are references to Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissinger and Marianne Faithfull. Though an authentic voice of the late 1970s and '80s, with a particular talent for detail and dialogue, Beattie's style...
...saying goes, if you've got it, flaunt it. Or better yet, follow the example of three Harvard women featured in Playboy's new Women of the Ivy League" issue: flaunt it, then autograph...
...frequent-flyer miles and wolfing down Big Macs. "Newt isn't rich," says Jim Baen, the nonrich publisher of Gingrich's novel 1945, who should not be confused with the very rich publisher of Gingrich's nonfiction title To Renew America, Rupert Murdoch. Says Baen: "He should flaunt his poverty and stay at Motel...