Word: tome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COOK by Julia Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome in nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly, an instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools. The recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many lightened for health-conscious American palates. A boon for beginners; a must for the more experienced...
SINCE the start of this decade, Americans and America watchers have been obsessed with the idea that the United States is in decline. Soaring deficits and rising imports mean the eagle is falling, wrote so many doomsayers, who churned out tome after tome documenting their claims. America was losing--or had already lost--its competitive edge to the Japanese, and the only way for the U.S. to climb back to the top was to model itself after Japan...
...joining The Crimson I was sacrificing allthose A grades I was certainly capable ofachieving for something more valuable--experience.Or so I told my parents after first semestergrades came out. It sounded like a good excuse tome...
...inevitable barrage of media scavenging. First came the newspaper stories, detailing the cocaine and heroin abuse that led to the Rabelaisian comic's early death. Then a book, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, written by Watergate chronicler Bob Woodward. The tell-all tome implicated several of Belushi's Hollywood friends and associates for condoning, or at least ignoring, his self-destructive behavior...
Saul Bellow offers a literary bargain: A Theft, his vivid novella, costs $6.95. -- Umberto Eco's latest tome incites Ecomania in Italy...