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When Elmore Leonard writes a thriller called Get Shorty, you know he's going to get Shorty. Leonard does not fool around. It does occur to the reader, a couple of pages before the end of the last chapter, that no character named Shorty has yet appeared. But Leonard is our funniest and most reliable folklorist of low, middle and upper-middle lowlife -- the kind of human lint that accumulates in society's navel. He knows his business, doesn...
...directors work directly on Macintosh II computers, which allow for variations never imaginable in the days of sketch pads, scissors and pastepots. The basic task, however, has not changed: it is still, as founder Henry Luce described it, to get information off the page and into the minds of readers. Says Hoglund: "I try to give the reader a comfortable sense of continuity in our design, to strip away decorations and distractions and to enrich the voices of our writers, photographers and artists...
...novel, based on a true story, Matthiessen is pretty good at mythmaking himself. From the evidence he gives, there is no reason to think the real Edward J. Watson was much more than a serial killer with trading smarts that were offset by lethal outbursts of meanness. But the reader doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain...
...combine all stages of creating an issue of TIME -- from words, design and pictures to print -- into a seamless electronic process. Lelievre was interested in more than scoring a technological breakthrough. "Computers give editors more flexibility and more control," he says. "This edge provides the reader with a better-looking magazine with more late-breaking news...
...unexpected development, which is that the two main characters actually come to life and play a convincing love story. Clementine is charming but alarming, like most Presidents, and Guy, a writer blocked by prudence and the Secret Service, is rueful and funny. He successfully conveys his secret to the reader: why First Ladies' portraits look that way -- why Abigail Powers Fillmore, for instance, "looks like she has just been induced, for the good of the nation, to eat a dozen mud pies...