Word: compendium
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...Bochco may be smarter than ABC thinks. Civil Wars is a canny compendium of every relationship issue the '90s has to offer. And it feeds one of TV's most enduring myths: that the cold legal system has a human face. The moral high ground is always clearly marked -- for the viewer, if not always for the judge. Lawyers, moreover, are warm, understanding and passionately devoted to their clients. Onorati, after negotiating a settlement for the "overweight" wife, accompanies her to her 20th-year college reunion. Hemingway pleads with one client, the wife of a sleazy rock musician...
...presence of a work like "Cross" aptly complements and brings new meaning to other exhibits, like "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941), which opens the show. The latter print becomes a compendium for the show as a whole. The photograph contains a little bit of everything--a stunning evening landscape of mountains and clouds, a few remnants of industrialization, numerous crosses. It skillfully summarizes a new and fuller view of Ansel Adams...
Twice a month the center publishes Notable Quotables, a compendium of sometimes embarrassing, often idiotic but always verbatim quotes from various journalists. It also confers such dubious honors as the Linda Ellerbee Awards for Distinguished Reporting on the journalists making the dumbest remark in various categories. Why did the watchdog group single out the TV newswoman and best-selling author for its scorn? Says Bozell: "She epitomizes a liberal blowhard who has nothing...
...bootleg CD boom began in 1988 with the appearance of the Ultra Rare Trax series, a high-fidelity compendium of alternate versions and outtakes of songs by the Beatles. Since then, the market has been flooded with CDs featuring live concerts and unreleased tracks by such performers as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen. One of the most sought-after bootlegs is Prince's so-called Black Album, which his label, Warner Bros., has never released at the singer's request. Since May, bootleg copies of outtakes from U2's unfinished new album have been...
Scratch one of these split-city operatives, and you find a compendium of social customs and byways of manners, as well as menus. Take the matter of health and fitness consciousness. New Yorkers are increasingly aware of sound nutrition, but Angelenos are far more enlightened -- and insistent. Not only must the food be healthy, the plate must look healthy too. "Here it does not matter what you order; what you get is a salad with something in it," says Jivan Tabibian, a partner in the L.A. Remi. "New Yorkers like substance. In Santa Monica, they like fluff -- and the fluff...