Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Library officials still say that protection of the works--not the minds of the reader--underlies the secluded stacks. They point out that other "X" classifications include miniatures, unbound books and works in bad condition or with missing parts...
...expected that a writer accustomed to being funny in magazines would perform too gaudily in a book of this kind, luxuriate too much in the acuteness of his ironies. Frazier's enthusiasms are personal, but he stays out of the snapshots most of the time, and he leaves the reader with a powerful impulse to change the van's oil and head West...
...tarting up of TV Guide has dismayed many staffers. "The Murdoch people do not understand the American magazine reader," says outgoing managing editor R.C. Smith. "TV Guide has belonged to a small group of magazines, like National Geographic and Reader's Digest, in that it has always managed to be respectable so that people want to have it in their homes. ((The new bosses)) have a virgin-and-whore feeling about journalism -- you're either the Times of London or the Sun. The idea that there's a balancing act in between, I think, is alien to them." So, apparently...
...performances, writes Friedrich, had "a strange power unlike anything in the work of any other pianist . . . a power that made many people feel that their lives had somehow been changed, deepened, enriched." Still, Friedrich respects Gould's talents too much to canonize, or psychoanalyze, him. Instead, he sends the reader back to the recordings. And there, as one listens, one senses that in some deep but precise sense, Gould and his piano were truly one. For the man himself was a highly sensitive instrument, tuned to a fine pitch, capable of many moods, and played upon at times by otherworldly...
...Abstract each spring sends librarians, market researchers, consultants and journalists scurrying to mine its nuggets. But the Census Bureau publication goes well beyond gee-whiz numbers. Its 1,450 tables and charts offer a fascinating window on the world. With imagination -- and strong eyes for the fine print -- a reader can use the Abstract to make at least a little sense out of the world's never-ending and confusing blizzard of information...