Word: franked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building, which is being designed by architect Frank O. Gehry, will be located on the site of the MIT's historic Building 20, where radar was developed during World War II. That building was demolished last year...
...tell it, speaking into a tape recorder or writing with pen on paper or at a computer. The act of writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe everyone won't equal his success, but to your family and friends...
...television talk shows, in poetry, in comedy clubs, in monologues for the theater and, most of all, in books. The range is astonishing, from best-selling works by the celebrated--like the just-out memoirs of Henry Kissinger--to two different views of growing up Irish by brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt, to the modest, self-published stories meant only for a handful of friends and relatives...
...American pundits and former U.S. officials urged Clinton to rethink NATO's reliance on air power alone, suggesting that only "boots on the ground" can rescue the faltering campaign. "We're in a war, and we need to allow our military to do what is necessary to prevail," says Frank Carlucci, Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "If it means troops on the ground, then...
...hope to nab a big publishing deal and follow in the footsteps of someone like Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, you'll have to ask some hard questions about your book first. "Publishers decide on the basis that no one reads anymore. So they ask, 'Can we promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing...