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...dressed in a natty but rumpled suit, Pivot, 52, is an unlikely candidate for stardom. The son of a winegrower and grocer in Lyons, he attended journalism school in Paris. In 1958, after dabbling in financial reporting and writing a novel, he applied for a job on the literary supplement of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Pivot knew little about literature, but the editor happened to be a wine connoisseur and was impressed by Pivot's knowledge of Beaujolais, the wine from the countryside near Lyons. Thus Pivot broke into the life of letters "totally by chance," as he recalls...
...members of the VCR generation, these video chronicles make an alluring supplement to the traditional hardbound yearbook. Some schools take a do-it- yourself approach; all that is needed is some video equipment and a few students willing to put in the time and effort. Others opt for outside video firms like Copy Cat Video, a St. Louis-based company that Wilson runs with her partner Claudia Walters. Typically, such video entrepreneurs contract with students at the school to tape certain big events during the year, as well as scenes of everyday school life and, in some cases, individual student...
THERE WAS ONCE a time when being a writing teacher fell under the old aphorism that "Those who can't do, teach." Nowadays, however, the grim economics of the writer's trade make it almost essential that even successful authors and poets find a steady supplement to their royalties. The majority of America's best authors make at least a portion of their livelihood from teaching writing at universities, fulfilling the literary pretensions of the young while adding a little sparkle to dry English departments...
...made it possible for the Brauers and their lawyer to work out a deal with the bankruptcy trustee to buy back the farmhouse and 38 acres. Last Thursday a county clerk recorded the deed in the Brauers' name. Margie, who had taken a job as a hospital secretary to supplement Ernie's $300 monthly Social Security check, sat securely in her kitchen last week. "I look out my window," she said. "Our view is so lovely from the house down to the creek. It has never been so green." But then she added quietly, "So many good things have come...
...Rutger is also different from the Time Magazine Special Advertising Supplement Achievement Awards in that mindless success-obsessed automatons are not encouraged to submit their absurdly padded resumes in order to reap yet more vacuous praise for their completely worthless achievements, which are generally motivated by hopeless insecurity. Also, no money will be awarded...