Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In Girls on the Run, Ashbery exhibits an intellectual oddity that can be perceived as the sort of high-art-shy bravery that the really beloved fine arts girls can love so much. A succulent read, it makes little narrative sense--yet it is still somehow ten times as stimulating...
Rainwater fresh and palpable as crinoline, East of the Mountains tells the story of Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into...
It must have seemed like a good idea at the onset: Why not retell the mythic story of Orpheus and Eurydice, this time casting the principals as international pop/rock stars? Ergo Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt; 575 pages; $27.50), which recounts the fabulous...
The passage is beloved by Raven because it is a celebration of biodiversity, the most elegant since Genesis, and it is the cause of biodiversity--of maintaining endangered plants and preserving the wilderness--that drives all he has done with the Missouri Garden for nearly 30 years. Rather than being...
Hayes, 54, didn't set out to be an environmentalist. He grew up in Camas, Wash., a small paper-mill town where the air stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his...