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While Turner backed away last week from any formal ties with the group, he pledged "to improve the quality, objectivity and diversity of CBS programming." In the past, Turner has criticized network fare in general for its "sleaze, stupidity and violence." His flagship station, WTBS, currently offers sports broadcasts and...
Below all, Seagrave's bright irreverence in portraying Sun Yat-sen as a character from opera bouffe and Chiang as an "ill-tempered bravo" almost contradicts the charges of Machiavellian villainy he wishes to press. The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light; in the end, however, it works...
Given the careful and detailed scientific reporting in this book, a project that took five years, it is surprising to learn that the author received his doctorate from Yale not in science but in English literature. His Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology is perhaps more...
With more elusive personalities like cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose career was cut short by multiple sclerosis in 1973, when she was 28, and Carlos Kleiber, the notoriously reclusive conductor who died last year, the interviews and documentaries that usually make up the bonus material on DVDs are scarce if...
I have an eidetic memory of when I first read Dangling Man, a faded Penguin edition with an orange spine. I was 14 years old, Chicago born (like Augie; his creator was actually born in Montreal and came to this country when he was 9 years old). It showed me...