Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Costly By Comparison...
From the field, there are stories by the New York Times' David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan that peel away the optimism of American officialdom. Or read the devastating comparison by the Washington Post's Richard Harwood of inflated, official battle reports against the accounts of correspondents on the scene to understand the origins of the "credibility...
...lifted Juliet over his head while still kneeling on the ground, allowing her to hover over him before each embrace. The only draw-back of the performance was the partnership of Graffin and Kent. It was not an ideal partnership, as he seemed more heavy in his dancing in comparison to her floating lightness. It created a lopsidedness to their interactions that took away from the overall passion and beauty of the choreography...
...Publishers Weekly blurb for the novel Billy Dead notes that it is "reminiscent of Dorothy Allison," and on the surface this comparison is very apt. Like Allison's most famous work, Bastard out of Carolina, Lisa Reardon's debut novel deals with the effect of abuse on the children of a working-class white family and is narrated by one of the children, Ray, now grown up. Ultimately, however, for various reasons Billy Dead is a weaker and less interesting work than its predecessor...
...trapped with Ray's skewed vision of the world and, what is worse, his sometimes hideously rambling narrative. To pull a novel off with a hero or heroine essentially isolated from society, the protagonist has to be vivid and interesting, which is why this novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with blank-faced victims at the center...