Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncluttered, harsh prose. Didion also has the reporter's curiosity about how things work. She investigates how orchids are tended, how freeways are monitored, how lifeguards live, how dams work, the philosophy and history of shopping malls. She is always honest in her examination of a setting or person. She damns through accuracy, not forceful moral argument. In "Bureaucrats," for example, she perfectly captures officials' self-importance and insularity. Placing contradictory statistics after bureaucrats' fatuous proclamations, she quietly pillories them. But she can nevertheless convey their own sense of misguided sincerity...
...touched so much in chemistry and touched it well that the world and Harvard will be at a loss," Tischler said. "He was not only a tremendous scientist but a very warm person," he added...
Deciding that someone is a public figure is easy enough if he is running for office or commenting on a nightly news show. But what if an otherwise obscure person is unwillingly caught up in a public controversy? Does he too become a public figure? Last week the Supreme Court answered...
...between what a witness says on the stand-which could in fact be handed to the jury as a written transcript-and how he says it, his general demeanor, the matter of flesh-and-blood delivery that sways a jury. All four stories are told in the first person by young men who loosely share some common characteristics. An ex-college wrestler is given brief command of his squad during his own basic training and learns that trying to be fair is a kind of condescension. A sophisticated Eastern writing teacher plays Pygmalion to a gifted but corn-fed coed...
High-powered, always on the prowl for trouble, Parker's tunes range from the slyly salacious (Black Honey, Back Door Love) to the wittily defiant (Back to School Days) and the nakedly personal (You Can't Be Too Strong, which concerns an abortion). In all, not suitable for an easy listen or a fast dance. "I know my music makes people nervous, that it's not what the average person likes to hear," Parker muses. "It's got blues, soul, a lot of different things in it." What gives the songs much of their spirit...