Word: norman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also again convened a panel of luminaries with Charlie Rose as host, which was broadcast on his great PBS show; this one, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, included Sheryl Crow, Rob Reiner, Anna Deavere Smith, our art critic Robert Hughes and Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstine. Then, in a series of occasionally contentious (but stimulating) meetings, we sat down to choose a final list of 20 with our partners at cbs News, who are producing an hour prime-time special on each group. The show will air this Thursday...
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, 1985 Architect: Norman Foster All the workings of a high rise--from escalator machinery to cross braces--are displayed in Hong Kong's forceful steel-and-glass tower...
Reno's name joins a stellar list of previous recipients: Elizabeth H. Dole, Katherine Graham, Doris Kearns-Goodwin, Jessye Norman, Jane Pauley and Alice Walker...
...first-time novelists burst onto the scene, as Norman K. Mailer '53 and Irwin Shaw establish themselves. Mailer writes perhaps one of the best fictional works on World War II in The Naked and The Dead and Shaw wrote The Young Lions...
...Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers...