Word: novelized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expenses are spiraling out of reach faster than college costs, which have been increasing about 7% annually. How is a family's nest egg supposed to keep up? A new special-purpose financial institution, the College Savings Bank of Princeton, N.J., is offering a novel solution: a certificate of deposit featuring an interest rate tied to an annual index of higher-education costs. Says Bank Chairman Peter Roberts: "With us, families have shifted the risk ((of rising tuition and inflation)) from the household to the bank." Even if a child skips college, the parents can still cash in the CollegeSure...
...there is more than luck involved, as Western experts make clear. "The Phobos mission," says Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, "is not just world class. It is novel, diverse and appropriate. The whole idea is very clever." Notes Gerhard Neukum, of the German Aerospace Research Establishment: "The Mars mission is fantastic. It carries a huge set of instruments. They did it with Venus. Now they have focused on Mars, and it is to be expected that they will be equally successful." In fact, each of the probes will carry 25 instruments -- an enormous number, considering that the U.S.'s complex...
Such are the tensions that animate The Color of Blood, Brian Moore's 16th novel. The setting here is the rather '60s-ish cold-war zone of Central Europe, an anonymously rainy, grainy place of black limousines and border checkpoints. But Moore's decidedly up-to-the-minute subject, invoking issues as topical as liberation theology and the Solidarity movement in Poland, is % the way in which a religious leader in a political world separates good causes from mixed motives. As Moore's protagonist, Cardinal Stephen Bem, asks an aide, "Are we filling the churches because we love God more...
...vignettes skewer the shallowness of television programming, they also poke fun at the shallowness of television audiences. One commercial is for a best-selling novel about a prostitute who marries the president, called "First Lady of the Evening," featuring "large, easy-to-read print and no big words." Movie reviewers critique the life of one of their viewers as he watches, calling him a bore and describing his life (from which they show a clip) as uninvolving...
...producing anything substantial? He can, of course. Vonnegut's rueful, wondering satire in Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and half a dozen other books says "Goodbye, better luck next time" to human society in the late 20th century. That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular on his mind. So with Bluebeard, whose hero is a wealthy, one-eyed old man named Rabo Karabekian, a magazine illustrator in his youth, then a soldier during World War II, then, briefly, an acclaimed abstract expressionist painter. There...