Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem. Miller and Michael Cristofer have simply chosen to tell the story from coarse Daryl's point of view rather than, as Updike did, from the ironic women's. This is not a movie of compound-complex sentences and nuances. But it is a damned entertaining one, with a textbook display of camerabatics -- if textbooks were comic books with a mean streak...
...gambit was clearly successful for Harcourt, the largest U.S. textbook + publisher, and its imperious chairman, William Jovanovich, 67. Early last week the company's 15-member board voted to proceed with a $3 billion plan that will give each shareholder a package of special dividends and stock valued at more than $50 a share. The next day British Press Baron Robert Maxwell, owner of the London Daily Mirror, called off a $44-a-share takeover bid. Jovanovich had made the fight a battle of personalities. He called Maxwell's offer "preposterous" and declared the Fleet Street habitue "entirely unfit...
...textbook on political-damage control requires the candidate's wife to fly immediately to comfort her beleaguered husband. But for three long days Lee Hart remained silent in the house in Colorado, as campaign officials relayed word that she was suffering from a sinus infection. Political insiders regarded that story with the same skepticism that Kremlinologists apply to news that the Soviet leader has a cold. But in this case the illness was genuine. Not only was the candidate's wife unable to fly, but her left eye was badly swollen. The eye was so inflamed that at one point...
Until the early 1980s, after Klarsfeld led an energetic campaign, hardly any French textbook even mentioned the Vichy government's treatment of Jews or its role in the deportations...
...called an "invincible passion for independence." This is not to say he achieved it. Colin Simpson's Artful Partners concedes that B.B.'s spirit may have been willing but that his flesh was weak. The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses. There are also numerous examples that suggest Berenson relaxed his standards or changed his mind to accommodate Duveen and his brothers, who, as Simpson writes, were ignorant about Italian painting but knew...