Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stayed for the ride. "There are readers who abandoned me over the feeling that my writing has become relatively lusterless," he observes. "But your literary style is kind of like your face -- you can't do much to change it. I just hope that you can look at a shelf of my books and say, 'This is a 40-year struggle to understand the human race...
...Aires, thousands of people stand in line every morning, eyes glazed by hunger, clamoring for government handouts. The residents of most lower-class neighborhoods have had to fend for themselves. In the city's northern barrio of San Fernando, Ever Ponce, 30, and his brother Miguel, 37, work as shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies. The project...
...obese volumes by heavyweight authors on Richard Nixon are upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased...
...computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin-based PC maker that bears his name: "There are no more places on the shelf for another computer. There are more than you'd ever want to name...
...Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail-order shopping, and may have hit on a winning enterprise. Still, the thriving independents hope that buying a book from your armchair catalog won't be so satisfying as browsing through a volume in an armchair at your...