Word: webs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Improbably, all the candidates conclude that the way to win the editorship is to come up with the Big Story. Despite so much interoffice sex that it is a wonder the paper ever comes out, Weinraub's tale sprints to its end as smoothly as a web offset press. Bylines is too gussied up with made-for-television passion and greed to resemble life at a big-city newspaper. The unlikely competition for the naked and dead editor's job does, however, neatly bear out the second rule of journalism: you're only as good as your...
...STARTED OUT as a simple request for a simple solution to a simple problem. And it came from the one man at the University who should be able to sidestep the bureaucratic web that usually ensnares such pleas and transforms them into complicated matters...
...Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters' watchful eyes. When the illness and subsequent death of one of the five sisters touches the family, the complex web of emotion and experience that binds the three generations of women is gradually untangled...
...selectively from Truman's containment strategy and Nixon's détente. "Our policy, unlike some versions of détente, assumes that the Soviet Union is more likely to be deterred by our actions that make clear the risks their aggression entails than by a delicate web of interdependence," he said...
...despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another woman with the same first name, Cecilia Gallerani, the model for Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. If one could not deduce...