Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Traitor's Heart, Rian Malan, a young white South African journalist, has one major subject: Rian Malan. His intense and angry memoir offers a series of South African impressions: the author as exiled hippie in America; the author as pariah in his native land; blacks under fire, with a prominent & figure of the author...
Violence against women involves more than rape. According to Murray Arnold Strauss, author ofBehind Closed Doors 16 percent of all American couples report a violent act within the relationship in the last year. Another telling statistic: according to a 1987 report by the Hazelton Foundation, which studies juvenile justice, more than half of men ages 11 to 20 in jail for murder killed the batterer of their mother. And the March of Dimes reported in 1989 that more babies are born with disabilities because their mothers were battered than as a result of the combined effects of all the diseases...
...great advantage of not being written in indigestible jargon of international relations," Hoffmann says. "But it's not for people who pick up Ludlum at the airport, either," referring to the author of best-selling intrigue novels...
...master of the game," he says. "You must create consensus, have great flexibility, accept criticism. Not in literature. When you write a novel, you should be very intolerant, very intractable about the goals that you have set." His critics say this stubborn streak has kept the author from building the alliances, particularly with leftist groups, that he needs to govern Peru effectively. Instead, they say, he relies on advice from a small cadre of confidants that includes his wife Patricia, 43. "He is very alone out there," says Hernando de Soto, a leading Peruvian economist and onetime friend...
Fitting in can be a traumatic, sometimes infuriating experience. Amy Tan, author of the best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club, recalls being ashamed that her homelife was not quite that of her white peers. "The Chinese food was wonderful when it was family," she remembers. "But when my friends came over, I was embarrassed." Selling movie projects in Hollywood, director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Eat a Bowl of Tea) finds some studio executives "patronizing or confused." Says he: "If you speak English with a French accent, they say, 'That's cute.' But if you speak it with...