Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training and hooks up with Debbie Sue, a Florida beachgirl and playmate of porpoises. Plimpton employs real Mets as characters, digresses into baseball lore, horn playing, Zen and the art of pitching, and the emotional state of the narrator. It is all gracefully done but tends to take the reader's eye off the ball, or rather the fact that there is not much ball. An agreeably plotless pastime, Sidd Finch should appeal to minor league mystics...
Despite his familiarity with almost every aspect of the moviemaking business, Corliss has no interest in writing screenplays, directing, producing or acting. Says he: "I'm more analytic than creative. My main interest is batting out shapely prose that will inform the reader...
...graduate student in art history, I must take exception to the response to your article on the auctioning of Van Gogh's Sunflowers ((LETTERS, May 4)). A reader states that "paintings were meant to be enjoyed by individuals with taste and an understanding of the artist's talent. They were not meant to be viewed by hundreds of schoolchildren being shooed past canvas-laden museum walls on the way to the cafeteria." The attitude displayed here is one of blatant elitism, which not only equates the enjoyment of art with a certain level of education but also implies that "taste...
...Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle in March for $400 million. The Chronicle (circ. 425,000) is vying for reader loyalty with the Houston Post (circ. 316,000), and victory will require greater infusions of cash...
...these customers is Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a free-spirited New York script reader forever on the lookout for classic volumes of poetry and prose at affordable prices. One day she comes across an advertisement for Marks and Co. in the Saturday Review, and pens the first letter of what will become a two-decade-long correspondence between herself and the various employees of Marks...