Word: raves
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First copies of the Dial, a slick new monthly about television, were winning rave reviews from charter subscribers this month. Billed as a program guide to public television, the Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with...
CARTER has his supporters, of course. Patronage appointees are not quick to shoot their goose. Many of them still rave about the president's performance in drawled Southern accents. The Georgia Mafia--with members from all over the country--has taken over and will be difficult to dislodge...
...what?" says you. "We knew since the time he began snagging national championships at 10 that Arias was a winner. Why rave...
Neither would Hill, 66, who spent 30 years studying Indian culture to write her "documented novel" on the life of the Lakota Sioux in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Published a year ago to rave reviews, the 834-page novel stayed on the bestseller lists for 28 weeks and sold more than 125,000 hard-cover copies. Producer David Wolper bought television rights and is preparing a miniseries. But now Indians have launched a campaign to discredit Hill and her book and to kill the TV project...
...letters have damaged Bok's reputation among some students and Faculty members, his other public actions--stemming from his belief in the University's independence--have garnered him rave reviews from enthusiastic colleagues and the Washington education community. Bok has argued consistenly and effectively about the dangers of private institutions' increasing dependence on the federal government. As Stanford president Richard Lyman explains, Bok has "raised problems we didn't have in the last 15 years," warning--as he did in a recent article--that government "can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its education and vigor...