Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT THE FEMINIST interpretation of Atwood's work ignores, though, is the texture and depth of even the most textbook "liberated" characters. In Life Before Man, the novel before Bodily Harm, for instance. Lesje, one of three narrators who form a triangle, holds a paleontology job at a Toronto museum. She works there passionately, betraying encyclopedic knowledge, weaving elaborate Cretaceous fantasies Atwood's twist makes the job consist in large measure of classifying, cleaning and filing innumerable Jurassic fish earbones...
...accurately and completely, the task has become ever more arduous and exasperating. Congress loaded last year's tax bill with new deduction rules, depreciation formulas and tax-shelter gimmicks and thus added to the confusion that has already made the Internal Revenue Code scarcely more comprehensible than a textbook on quantum mechanics...
...more than a handful of winners are necessary to avert a full-scale depression in the book business. Some major corporations that backed publishing in the '60s and '70s, hoping for a big score, are pulling out. RCA sold Random House; CBS jettisoned Fawcett Books; textbook giant Scott, Foresman abandoned William Morrow. And the film studios, whose pictures often earned outsize profits for paperback tie-in editions, are equally cautious. A seven-figure property like Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife has yet to make it to the screen. Currently, the odds are against...
...past the opposition late in the game that you could almost take an exciting win for granted. There was the game at Yale when Harvard scored three times in the last five minutes for a 4-2 win. There was the overtime with Dartmouth at Bright, when, on a textbook play, Firkins Reed screened the goalie and Sue Newell scored on a soft backhander. There was the marathon five-overtime struggle with heavily-favored Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot, ended after four hours and 15 minutes by Sue Yunick's breakaway goal. And there was the scoreless...
...Better then to have entrusted it to a prodigious visionary like Werner Herzog, whose best films cut like a sorcerer's scimitar through the legendary past. Herzog might have turned Quest for Fire into a dizzyingly lyrical poem. What Annaud and Brach have provided is a coffee-table textbook...