Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cynics have noted that Daniel is getting out of the Army in about two weeks. The Nixon letter could be a gilded passport to prestigious law firms. But sensation seeking does not seem to have been Daniel's motive. As one colleague put it, "Aubrey means it when he...
The setting of his story is Parma; had it been Verona the parody of Shakespeare's account of ill-starred lovers in Romeo and Juliet would have been too painfully obvious. Ford's Romeo is called Giovanni and he is played by an actor named Stan Nevin who has half...
Almost every American courthouse has its group of hangers-on-unofficial legal scholars who keep a critical eye on judges, lawyers, jurors and witnesses. To discover who those people are, TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt recently prowled the corridors of the New York State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn. He found...
Charlotte, out of friendship for Wilbur, a pig who is to be butchered, promises that she will save him, and does. She does it by playing a trick on Mr. Zuckerman, who owns the farm where Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton the rat, the cows, and the geese live. She knows that...
It is hard to reconcile George Ames with the warm, patient George Caldwell of The Centaur, whom Updike modeled on his father. Seeing Belle as the bitchy mother in Of the Farm is easier. When Eric's fiancée laughs in embarrassment at one of George's...