Word: kakutani
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...reason you’ll be here at Harvard: your most recent book, "State of Denial." Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times seems to think that it contains a portrait of President Bush "that stands in stark contrast to the laudatory one [you] drew in ‘Bush at War’" in 2002. How has your tone regarding the president changed in your new book...
...with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani doling out on-the-spot critiques a la Simon Cowell. (Kakutani: "Roth, that was self-indulgent, semi-literate trash! No wonder you never got that trip to Sweden." Roth: [tries to look brave, then sobs uncontrollably onto David Foster Wallace's shoulder...