Word: reader
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Science, however, is not as incomprehensible as it may seem. If the average reporter following the medical beat made even the slightest attempt to grasp the concepts at play, the average reader would be correspondingly better informed. And thus science and research would become less of a mystery and more of an accepted and well understood field, more along the lines of politics than magic...
This artful mix has won a steady stream of reader converts, among them Governor Sheffield, who admits he prefers the News even though "they write horrible stories about me." Advertisers too are climbing aboard, raising the News's market share to a healthy 65%. As for the once depleted and demoralized staff, it is reveling in the sleek new building, with its workout room, outdoor running track and the latest in computer technology. Marveled a visiting Fanning as she inspected the $8 million printing press: "It seems so big league...
...novel relied on Ephron's cauterizing prose to anchor the reader; the movie's commentary is the dialogue that Streep's fine, suggestive face carries on with the viewer. Stranded in rage, this Rachel has only the camera as her therapist, and Streep will turn to it as to a friend, confiding a querulous eyebrow or subtle grimace, simultaneously inhabiting and commenting on her role. Nicholson has a tougher assignment. He is, here, only half a man, all surface and no substance, and finally he distances himself from Mark, his face going slack in a kind of moral torpor...
...symposia are aimed at informed laypeoplewho are aware of developments in a certain area,organizers said. "They're for the proverbialScientific American reader," said Paul C. Martin'52, Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics,who co-ordinated the science section of thesymposia. "We have tried to choose topics ofcurrent or future general interest to give a tasteof the type of science done at Harvard," he said...
...confessed academic overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping out and eventually drifting into Corman's orbit. As adolescents, she was a reader, while he was a drawer, often of fantastic sci-fi visions. She liked "film," as he put it, while he was drawn to the "movies." And he has been heard to wonder if, in her Palm Springs days, she would have dated a boy from across the tracks...