Word: review
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started in the league. During the last seconds of the play-off series with the Pacers, Bird told his team to swarm Jordan and see if he was great enough to pass. He was--and Bird should have known it, because it has been true for some time (review the tape of last year's final play-off game, Larry...
DIED. ALFRED KAZIN, 83, one of his generation's most eloquent literary critics; in New York City. The Brooklyn-born Kazin stumbled onto his calling seemingly by accident: while riding in a subway in 1934 he was so incensed by a New York Times book review that he got off at Times Square to confront the critic face to face. Kazin's thoughtful critiques continued in On Native Grounds, his seminal 1942 appraisal of American writers, and in countless other essays, reviews and memoirs dwelling in depth on New York, Judaism and above all literature, the three topics dearest...
...McCourt's Angela's Ashes, a haunting account of his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
...hand, writes Francis X. Clines, the Times's designated anthropologist to the Bible Belt, "some critics find it revealing that his 1980 law-review article 'Combatting Official Corruption by All Available Means' began with an Old Testament quotation." The horror! By that standard Martin Luther King was not just a fanatic but a raving zealot. (And what shall we do with the first line of Moby Dick...
...taught advocacy at Harvard. And he delights judges by keeping his arguments brutally simple. He's famous for answering big firms' kitchen-sink briefs with brilliantly terse responses. He once proposed a $250 fine on lawyers for citing cases from before 1950, and $1,000 for citing law-review articles. When he was president of the D.C. bar, Stein began meetings by handing out notes that said, "Be brief...