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...main problem with being a woman faculty member at Harvard is that there simply aren't enough of us," Pedersen says. "As a result, women on average have heavier administrative responsibilities within...
There is a certain, dangerous school of modern fiction that believes that a bit of trouble is all that's necessary in a good book. Throw in some personality tics, add a major societal problem for the main character to grapple with, and bingo! You've just won the Seventeen magazine fiction contest and a three-book deal with a major publishing house...
...pattern to her madness, according to him. Each time he refused her push for reconciliation, she filed abuse claims. If she was ever bruised, he says, it was from one of the several plastic surgeries she underwent to feed her vanity and draw ogles at the tony Main Line gym where she worked out almost daily, a spandex emporium for the young and the restless. He can give you the dates too, for the nose job, the eye job, the breast job, the chemical peels...
...will be universally benign, like everlasting spring ("Polar bears will soon have to use artificial ice"). In Astor's view, "this period--A.D. 2000--is by far the most wonderful the world has as yet seen." But the world has grown too small, which is why the book's main characters take off for Jupiter in a spaceship equipped with booster rockets. "The future glory of the human race," concludes Astor, "lies in exploring at least the solar system." Ironically, this dreamer of technical progress, especially of huge powerful ships, went down with the Titanic...
...Fleming's work the extreme close-up is on Simpson, who, along with his partner, the more stable Jerry Bruckheimer, produced the hits Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Crimson Tide before his 1996 death from an overdose. Aside from his obvious pop-culture smarts, Simpson's main contribution to cinema was his dictum that a blockbuster must have an easily described plot with three acts: explosive incident, impending crisis, triumphant resolution. His own story, however, was far more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson...