Word: rogerism
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...DIED. ROGER STRAUS JR., 87, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent co-founder of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...
...preview next season's series for advertisers--CBS offered a lesson in the difference between life and TV. It closed its presentation with a surprise appearance by the Who, playing its classic Who Are You, the theme of CSI. Carnegie Hall shook, Pete Townshend windmilled on his guitar, and Roger Daltrey howled, "Oooooh...
...picked - we still don't know exactly [who it is]," says a senior Russian Cabinet official. "The person does not matter, though. It's the type that does: someone close and demonstrably loyal to Putin." Car Trouble Maybe this is a good time to buy a car. Last week Roger Putnam, chairman of Ford in Britain , lamented that new E.U. directives on auto safety, to be implemented by 2008, would add about 35,000 to the sale price of every new car. Among other things, the rules require that carmakers minimize the amount of chemicals used in the manufacture...
...ACTOR, YOU PLAYED PILOT ROGER MURDOCK IN THE 1980 COMEDY AIRPLANE! AND APPEARED ON SHOWS LIKE DIFF'RENT STROKES. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOUR ACTING CAREER...
...Townshend and Daltrey barreled through the songs - Pete windmilling on the guitar, Roger unleashing his trademark screams - as if they were in front of any other audience, say, one composed of people with souls. That, I guess, is what great entertainers do, in popular music or popular TV: they forget, for a while, about the compromises and cynical dealing that keep their business afloat, and occasionally manage to create something wonderful and transcendent. Maybe one of the shows we see this week will do that, maybe not, but it was good to get a reminder that it could happen, before...