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...literary community. The most cogent explanation for Southern's peculiar decision to stick with the film world can be found in his 1962 essay "When Film Gets Good..." (included in "Now Dig This"): "It has become evident that it is wasteful, pointless, and in terms of art, inexcusable, to write a novel which could, or in fact should, have been a film...
...Ridgefield Press in order to quote him in its ads for The Animal and A Knight's Tale, I shook my head in disgust, knowing that this is valuable free press I should be getting. I also felt bad for Mark and Jonathan Schumann, who really do write film reviews for the Ridgefield paper in their "Take Two: A Father and Son Go to the Movies" column, and whose careers may never recover from this blow. Mostly, though, I just thought about myself...
What makes this process less Star Chamber-like is that workers can turn in self-assessments and choose up to seven colleagues and clients to write evaluations on their behalf. Moreover, anyone in the company can voluntarily submit a review of anyone else's performance. All this makes Enron's approach "a lot less subjective and a lot less random," says Steve Kean, an executive vice president, because "it doesn't depend on the views of any individual supervisor...
...fact, political books appear to be your favorite genre. Others write-ins included "The O'Reilly Factor" by Bill O'Reilly, "Barry & 'the Boys' : The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History" by Daniel Hopsicker, "The Betrayal of America : How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President" by Vincent Bugliosi and "At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" by Bill Sammon...
...catch-all containers for news would slowly fade away. In fact, the opposite is the case. Not a week goes by when we're not all commemorating the 20th anniversary of this or the 35th anniversary of that. It's as though we can't think of things to write or broadcast about unless it's some kind of jubilee...