Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scheme was launched three years ago, and she has produced a serviceable and often illuminating catalog, reinforced by scores of sidebars on dance, music, film and dozens of other subjects not amenable to gallery treatment, written by no fewer than 22 other contributors. Practically nowhere does this 400-page tome show a trace of the poxy French-colonial, theoretical jargon whose "discourse" has disfigured so many other museum publications (including the Whitney's) in the past 15 years, and that is a great mercy...
...PEACE Anti-American sentiment sparked by NATO's strikes on Kosovo made Monica Lewinsky's Russian publisher scale back the first print run of Istoriya Moniki (Monica's Story) from 50,000 copies to 10,000. But in its first week in stores, the tome has already sold out. Says a spokesperson for the publisher: "Men and women say she may be an awful person, her book may be trash, but they'll buy it all the same." The Starr report, it should be noted, sold mere hundreds in Russia...
This quest to redeem oneself salvages success for both the Shark and the Sox. The tome of sports is long and contains many disappointing plot twists, but I'm glad there's something to read on the next page...
This quest to redeem oneself salvages success for both the Shark and the Sox. The tome of sports is long and contains many disappointing plot twists, but I'm glad there's something to read on the next page...
...Peter Jennings, The Century served as the mother lode from which the anchorman's well-received companion volume of the same name was mined. The book, written with Todd Brewster, is perched on the New York Times best-seller list, 11 slots behind The Greatest Generation, a historical tome by another network-news anchor, Tom Brokaw...