Word: reading
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...with his volume Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random House). The book's title, from one of Garland's oft-sung standards, is ironic; Garland never could get happy, despite her frantic efforts. Clarke's 10 years of research and 500 interviews blend into a smooth, tantalizing read. After learning more about Garland's tumultuous childhood (Dad repeatedly got into trouble for pursuing teenage boys; Mom was the stage mother from hell), readers will never question why Frances Ethel Gumm grew up to be the sad, pill-popping, suicidal adult that she was. Endless love affairs, abortions, crises...
During an interview with TIME last Friday, as he led a bus caravan across eastern Iowa--moving through the most liberal part of the state, enjoying some boisterous rallies--Bradley was, as usual, impossible to read. He was either hoping the world might yet come around to his way of thinking or resigned to the prospect that it would not, or both. What was unmistakable was his Zenlike calm. "The key thing is to find ways to make the positive powerful enough that it absorbs the negative energy that comes from politics as usual, which is what we're dealing...
...could get Wirzbicki in a cage, hanging from the ceiling at our next party, that would be okay too," Warburton said. "He could read, think or go-go dance. There would be music playing, so he could get tips. We're fairly generous partygoers...
...your social life, prose obviously stolen from response papers in humanities classes, or anything involving the word "irony." Also strictly taboo is anything to do with Amtrak, airports, or wistful reflections on going home for break. Especially the last one. No one, and I mean no one, wants to read about that...
...research manager Jim Olstrom was naturally eager to know whether his customers were having problems creating their home pages. As recently as last November, he would have had little choice but to wait while a market-research firm surveyed users in order to put together a report he might read two months later. Instead, he turned to InsightExpress, the country's first fully automated online market-research service. Within a few hours Olstrom learned from it that some new customers were finding the directions for uPublish! hard to follow. "We were able to make changes immediately," Olstrom says. Presto! Instant...