Word: bewilderment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paradoxically, she dabbles earnestly in photography, recording those surfaces that bewilder her so. She dreams of photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond and perhaps capturing a view of New England when "the world of ideas" still existed. Most of all, she wants to take a definitive picture of "the world-renowned...
BOOKS . . . DO THE WINDOWS OPEN? The juxtaposition of what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and...
BOOKS . . . DO THE WINDOWS OPEN? The juxtaposition of what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and...
It is not clear what inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds...
Under the tutelage of men like Phil Knight of Nike, Michael Jordan became the first great crossover athlete, a black man whose appeal spans race, age and gender. Little old ladies who have no idea what a jump shot is know -- and like -- Mike. Because of his responsibilities as a...