Word: readers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-track London art world of the '60s and '70s. It covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage to lose track of their little girl for a 14-year span -- and still retain the reader's sympathy. Perhaps because the author is a longtime feminist, Helen, who finally conquers her passive instincts and makes an independent life for herself, comes off rather better than her domineering, pigheaded husband...
...White came as close as anyone has to producing the Great American Gay Novel. Its depiction of sexual awakening was vividly specific, yet its emotional terrain -- initial delight leading to guilt and alarm at the strange new force in one's life -- might have evoked adolescence for almost any reader. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, a sequel that takes White into young manhood, is at once clumsier and much more ambitious. At times as pretentious as the title, derived from Kafka, it trots out a succession of irritatingly self-indulgent characters and a clutch of cliches about the 1950s, from...
...small hats, boots on their legs, soldiers in camouflage, and women of the night, with long eyelashes and pink satiny skirts . . . I had no idea what I'd do with a pet beetle in my travels, so I resisted and kept going." The energy of her motion carries the reader with...
...page letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror Alan Moyer admits that some cover letters are "obviously trying to influence the jurors." He should know. It was Moyer, as the Republic's managing editor, who oversaw his paper's extravaganza of an entry. (He did not judge the entry, however; jurors and board members must recuse themselves...
...other common theme is that there is money to be made telling people where to go. The idea is not new. Several U.S. periodicals devoted to the journeying reader emerged at the turn of the century, including the forefather of what is today's Travel-Holiday, owned by the Reader's Digest. That magazine now has a circulation of 800,000 and remains a sedate, middlebrow Howard Johnson's sort of enterprise. The new action is exemplified by the current industry leader, American Express's upscale Travel & Leisure, a 17-year-old that is still growing briskly, with a circulation...