Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poussaint says this changed image is apparentin modern television portrayals of doctors. Hesays gritty, realistic portayals of physicians onshows like St. Elsewhere are a far cry fromthe super-doctor images on Marcus Welby...
...author's mannerisms are like old pals. One staple is stretches of unanchored dialogue so protracted that one has to go back and count off who is speaking. Another is italics. A simple sentence like "If only Marcus could start writing, then everything would move" would not appear to need emphasis, but Murdoch's fans play along, as if she were somehow reading the story aloud...
...easy, to poke fun at these idiosyncrasies. What Murdoch can do surpassingly well is move a narrative. Once caught in her grip, the reader flies through myriad complications, signal switches and genuine surprises. The Message to the Planet is not her strongest book. It chronicles the decline of Marcus Vallar, a charismatic man who may have mysterious healing powers. But the central figure is a tiresome young don, Alfred Ludens, who is preoccupied with genius -- he is writing a book about Leonardo -- and obsessed by Vallar. The subplot involves a pigheaded painter and his attempts to maintain a particularly grotesque...
...literate journal aiming at young, well-off college graduates, presumably male. Some 1,200 pages of ads have been sold for the first year, 20% above initial projections, thanks in large part to Deford's credibility, which he has exploited by pitching to potential advertisers in person. Says Drew Marcus, an analyst at Kidder Peabody: "The paper is going after a very narrow niche, but one with a possibility of success...