Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PUBLISHER: SIMON & SCHUSTER; 893 PAGES...
ABOUT 40% OF AMERICANS DRINK WINE at least occasionally. Any of them who latch onto WINE SNOBBERY (Simon & Schuster; $20) will have their eyebrows raised by this self-styled expose of what's behind -- and what sometimes goes into -- the noble beverage. In remorseless detail, British oenophile Andrew Barr explains how France's supposedly rigid appellation laws protect mediocrity more than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little...
Four current undergraduates competed: junior Norman Bellingham, a 1988 gold medalist in the kayak pairs who was denied a medal this years; senior rower Snorre Lorgen, who competed for Norway; senior swimmer Kris Singleton, who competed in the 100 meter butterfly; and senior swimmer Simon Wainwright, a 200 meter butterfly racer...
PUBLISHER: SIMON & SCHUSTER; 175 PAGES...
Fostering in-house book writers is a long TIME tradition. Assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson is the author of Kissinger: A Biography, which will be published by Simon & Schuster next month. Isaacson says, "Henry Kissinger was very generous in the time and access he gave me. But it's not an authorized biography, and indeed it's quite critical in places." This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the spotted-owl environmental controversy in his | forthcoming book Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William A. Henry...