Word: reader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have been working as a team to enliven the look of TIME's business coverage. "Business often has to revisit the same story, like the auto industry or the stock market," says White. "We have to discover new and dramatic ways to present stock images so that the reader will find them fresh." Adds Boeth: "Wherever possible, we try to get business leaders out from behind their desks and into a context that reflects what his or her company does, or tells us something about the person. We want the picture to illustrate the whole story." For this week...
...that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the actual disaster is left unclear, although the reader has been prepared for its reason: the inevitability of male conflict. This is a stimulating and not unreasonable assertion, although it is not convincingly worked out as fiction. Neither is the author's romantic projection that the destruction is a new beginning that will eliminate the traditional causes of social...
...author always manages to find delectable Italian dishes and variations that seem new, and she can still entice the most indifferent reader to the kitchen. There, in the tradition of Julia Child and other thoughtful instructors, she will instruct how much of a dish can be made in advance, a great boon to anyone entertaining dinner guests. Among the many excellent recipes, a few that were irresistible in the testing were a risotto with squid, shrimp and clams, and a rosemary-and-sage-scented shoulder of veal, encrusted with bread crumbs and Parmesan after being braised. Pears simmered...
Heavy-handedness, in fact, pervades Leavitt's work; even the most empathetic reader will sometimes find his urgency, wistfulness and sentimentality excessive. When Eliot initiates Philip into the fraternity of nick-free shaving, it is Leavitt's prose that does the most bleeding...
...media are almost solely interested in sensation, even when it has been carefully crafted by others for their consumption. Both sides operate for mutual benefit: newspapers gain attention for their product, and publicity hounds (who are themselves media creations) gain egomaniacal satisfaction. And the big loser is the reader...