Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Character thus becomes the essential element in Kosinski's fiction. His characters live dramatically, moving in and out of events effortlessly, at times too effortlessly. Through George Levanter, the protagonist in Blind Date, Kosinski provides a vivid example of the "dramatic" lifestyle...
...books, like Blind Date, his most recent work, unfold as a series of brief dramatic episodes. Usually these vignettes bear only tangential relationships to each other, tied together by the slender thread of a common character...
Living dramatically, moving on to new experiences after old ones lose their intensity, requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. For Kosinski, the peculiarly American phrase "blind date" embodies this conception of a positive encounter with the unexpected. "A blind date has all the ingredients life should have," Kosinski said. A person embarking on a blind date perceives the next event in life "as a dramatic date...
...love you, Liza!" members of the opehing-night audience at The Act shouted, and that may just prove that love is blind. Liza Minnelli is a cult, and cults, like love, defy reason...
...self-effacing shuffle. Borges disarms that ancient foe, ineffability, by questioning his own existence. He has done so in dozens of fanciful tales bearing such tantalizing labels as Death and the Compass, Funes, the Memorious and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Despite his arcane references, the aging (78), blind, Argentine author has gained a worldwide readership. His ficciones have also attracted numerous imitators - none of whom have the old man's grace, wit and almost magical skills of compression. A Borges story is like some spring-loaded plaything that unexpectedly scatters bright metaphors for what the author lovingly...