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...this Johnny Carson guy?" wrote a London Standard reader. "I find it very difficult to laugh when the chat-show king is earning a multimillion-dollar salary reading cue boards." The pros were even rougher. Announced TV Critic Margaret Forwood in the Sun: "To be frank, Carson got right up my nose." Said Joe Steeples of the Daily Mail: "His monologue could be in Swahili for all we get from...
Three Cambodian heads gazed nobly at the reader from the glossy cover of Arts of Asia, an elegant and respected bi-monthly published in Hong Kong. The sandstone faces, 900-year-old survivors of the fabled Khmer kingdom of Angkor, had been chosen to set the theme of a recent issue devoted to antique Cambodian art, a high-priced passion among collectors around the world. Few readers knew that the images on the cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop...
...Barbara Tuchman's epic The Guns of August will soon forget the grandeur of Edward VII's funeral procession. The vision of nine European monarchs--braided, plumed, with "crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun," riding abreast through the palace gates--is so splendid that the reader, like the crowd, waits in hushed and admiring awe. This is history at its best, some say--a vision so powerful and majestic it transports the reader to the streets of London on that crisp May morning, 1910. Through her detailed and evocative narrative, Tuchman turns history into a tale, invading...
...Tuchman is not satisfied with this duty; repeatedly she describes her efforts to get a feeling out of the events she narrates. To heighten the reader's suspense, she writes of the time, without using the benefit of hindsight. ("I went back and cut all references but one of the Battle of the Marne, in the chapters leading up to the battle. Though it may seem absurd, I even cut out all references to the ultimate defeat of Germany. I wrote as if I did not know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant...
...anything proof of the power of their approach, not its lack of merit. E=MC2 is not "an untenable proposition" because it has been simply stated. Astonishingly, Engelmayer seems to have confused simple explanatory examples with the persuasive argument of the book. Luckily, I know of no other reader who has done the same...