Word: writing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...
...fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write a very illuminating chapter on his military career in Los Angeles," she later revealed to a friend, "with photographs, letters from voice teachers, and photographers who tried to teach him which was the best side of his face...
...this simply a literary conceit, the wishful thinking of someone who has chosen to write in a world that no longer seems to require his labor? With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves this question through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas, the former comrade who may have gone backward in time, toward prehistory, to achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder...
When he was five, his mother walked out, taking Hall and moving in with his grandmother, who lived around the corner. Thereafter Hall's childhood was a disjointed and lonely one. "Teachers would write on my report card, 'Arsenio needs attention. Is there anything you can do about it?' " Yet his grades were good, and he avoided drugs in high school -- though he admits to a rebellious period as a senior. "You couldn't get close to him," remembers Marjorie Banks, his old Sunday school teacher and the wife of former Chicago Cubs star Ernie Banks. "When you talked...
...Sachs is far more than a collector of critical viewpoints. She sifts through stacks of mail and scans dozens of newspapers for offbeat events to write up in the section. A hot-air balloon pageant in New Mexico caught her eye, as did a ten-day sausage festival in Texas. Says Sachs: "People have tremendous enthusiasm for their events and are genuinely delighted to have them included...