Word: norton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nearly 30 years after Solano took over, the Grolier has a large following of readers. It offers one of the highest-quality poetry series in the area, which last year cost $17,000 to orchestrate. A steady stream of customers flows in, many of them students looking for a Norton Anthology or for the textbook for Helen Vendler’s class. The store also arranges an annual poetry festival and the annual Grolier Poetry Prize; the latter has been co-sponsored for the last three years by the Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Foundation...
...Emperor Norton Records...
...customers were wealthy African Americans. Since then, her clientele has diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their home could withstand the iconic force of Frank Gehry and Marcel Wanders chairs. This year she decorated President Bill Clinton's new offices in Harlem with surprisingly modern...
...PLAYING WITH FIRE: Sebastian Junger's first book, "The Perfect Storm" (1997), was a huge bestseller that was made into a movie. Kirkus is betting on his follow-up book, "Fire" (Norton; October 1), giving it a starred review. "Run-for-cover writing from scary places, by Junger, a man with an appetite for the ragged edge of life and ability to write abut it with restrained power. The ten pieces in this collection of magazine articles, one of which won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, have the authentic tang of dispatches from the front...Deeply affecting stories...
...Anytime there's not an immediate problem that's apparent to people it's tough to convince people to think long-term," sniffed Bush before he, Cheney, Gail Norton and Spencer Abraham fanned out across the country Monday. (Bush did not publicly reconsider the wisdom of using a predictably short-term "crisis" to sell the plan in the first place...