Word: overview
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...performances is to admit the ultimate failure of Forman's enterprise. His commitment to the actors allows them the time to bring their characters to quirky behavioral life, but every reaction shot, every unfinished phrase or repeated sentence means that many moments stolen from the Doctorow overview. Forman has taken as gospel the novel's epigraph-Scott Joplin's admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances and its spurts of emotional...
Goldman's arch, stinging overview echos that bitchy comment. All too often, he relies on shallow dazzle and backup effects. His subject is a compelling case history, an exploited talent with a wasted, truncated life. But that is not enough for Goldman. The biographer insists that each kink in his subject's psyche represents a tremor in the nation's collective unconscious. When Goldman finishes his juicy recounting of Elvis Presley's life, however, the mystery of the King's fascination remains. For that, fans and readers should rejoice. As Elvis always insisted...
...first detailed look at the contents of those tablets in The Archives of Ebla (Doubleday; $15.95) by Giovanni Pettinato, the team member originally in charge of deciphering the ancient inscriptions. The book is translated from Italian, as was an earlier 1981 title, Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered (Doubleday; $14.95), an overview by Paolo Matthiae, head of the Ebla dig. Pettinato's translation of the creation hymn sharpens a question that has already tantalized laymen and provoked squabbles among the experts: Do these tablets have any bearing on the Bible...
This is a highly subjective and definitely incomplete chronology of the Bok years at Harvard. Culled primarily from back issues of The Crimson, it represents an overview, not a summary of the first decade of Harvard's 25th president...
...rewards can be spectacular. Diana Temple, 35, who got her M.B.A. at Chicago in 1970, went to work at a small investment research firm for $13,000, but she saw opportunities. Says she: "Security analysis is a very entrepreneurial business calling for initiative and creativity. The M.B.A. provides an overview framework, but we have to keep up with new techniques in investment decision making." Temple has kept up. She moved to Salomon Bros, last February for a salary and bonuses well into six figures...