Word: writes
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...This is a course I've wanted to teach for a long time," said Douglas E. Bauer, a preceptor in expository writing and the course instructor. "There is a certain expedient match between the way we try to get the expos writers to think and write and the way such essays are written...
...earned a reputation as a diverting guide for armchair tourists. His best-known travel books are Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel...
Some of the staff have left of their own volition. Alan Fisher was hired as a palace butler after having served in that capacity for Bing Crosby. "They are wonderful people," says Fisher, who left in 1984, "but incredibly boring." Stephen Barry, Charles' valet of twelve years, left to write what was billed as a tell-all book about his years with the prince. The book, Royal Service, disproved the adage that no man is a hero to his valet by depicting Charles as a cross between Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Bertrand Russell...
...bill that sharply reduces tax rates but does not increase the budget deficit. Ending those deductions entirely would have raised federal revenues by more than $160 billion over five years and helped pay for Reagan's plan to drop the top personal rate from 50% to 35%. With the write-offs for state and local taxes still in place, the committee will be able to reduce the top rate only to 37% or 38%. The committee also decided that it cannot afford to raise the personal exemption from $1,040 to $2,000, as Reagan had proposed. That would cost...
Barthes perfects self-consciousness as style. "Day By Day With Roland Barthes" delivers up the pleasures of the quotidienne with a painfully-attuned sensibility: "It is a moral effort to write small." In "How To Spend A Week in Paris," Barthes becomes bag-lady, retrieving aesthetic fragments from among the cultural litter...