Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only an entertaining narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...
Translated by William Weaver Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 297pages...
...That was the year of Paramount's Saturday Night Fever, another movie about a working-class dancer, which grossed $258 million worldwide and sold more than 30 million double albums. "It's too early to call Flashdance another Saturday Night Fever," says Paramount's Gordon Weaver, "but it looks as if it might become that kind of phenomenon...
...their techniques and attention span with them. For another, the film's "production numbers" were designed, or at least marketed, with MTV in mind. Paramount began running two-minute commercials on MTV a full three weeks before the movie opened. "The MTV audience likes music, movement, dancing," notes Weaver. "We hoped the movie and MTV would make a happy marriage. And it happened...
...Clarion-Ledger gave the eight-part education series an investment impressive even by the standards of bigger papers: Reporters Fred Anklam Jr., 28, and Nancy Weaver, 29, crisscrossed the state for four months, arriving unannounced in 40 of the 153 local school districts. Says Anklam: "We tried to catch people unawares." In 51 news stories and 27 editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average...