Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader reassured when this most confident of stylists lodges herself as an extraneous character in the book, discussing narrative ploys that she has considered and rejected and alerting the reader to real or imagined difficulties ahead. This process is known as throat clearing, and Didion, with her clarity and candor, has no need...
...entertainment, Weekend). The sections have opened the paper to stories far beyond conventional news. Some are obscure; some are refreshing reminders that there are other serious pursuits besides politics. The editorial page has also shifted, under Editor Max Frankel, from fussy, civics-textbook pieties to street-smart candor...
...while the author was in his early 20s, has no photograph on the dust jacket. Pynchon fans have come to expect that. The book does offer one major surprise: a 20-page introduction that amounts to Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography. Yet for all the apparent candor of these remarks, buyers should still beware. Pynchon criticizes the young writer he once was on a number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts, for using language as a form of showing off: "I will spare...
...attention to hunters." In fact, even some environmentalists give the flamboyant Arnett his due, applauding his battle for more funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as his quiet scuttling of the appointment of an unqualified Reagan crony as director of the agency. They even appreciate his candor. Says one longtime adversary: "Ray is 100% honest. If he's going to oppose you, he'll tell you before he does, while he's doing it and after he's done...
...Warren H. Phillips, the Journal's chairman and chief executive, said, "Our news management told them to cover it as they would any other company or paper. Just get it all out." The lengthy front-page story that resulted made melancholy reading, but was commendable for its candor. Winans may not have profited from the leaks, but a free-spending colleague, David J. Carpenter, who worked at the Journal for 18 months, might have. The Journal report was remarkably blunt: "The two are lovers . . . They live together, and Mr. Winans wears a gold ring given...