Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book focuses on four characters--two married couples who have split up for complex reasons, which they try to work out during the course of the book. They find they cannot solve their current problems until they delve into their separate pasts--which connect in several instances...
Walker broke ground with The Color Purple by writing in the voice of a poor Black woman. She showed a stunning power over words by using simple language to develop complex characters and show strong emotion. In Temple, Walker has done just the opposite. The book is a string of cliches and reads like a pop novel--there is too much discussion of running shoes, crystals and jacuzzis and not enough about people...
...point in the book, Jeremy's mother and object of his Oedipal complex "said in her entire life she'd met only one person more self-involved." The narrator is terribly self-involved, and the narrative cannot help but be overbearing...
...that this was just a face-saving measure on the part of Joel Hornstein, and that is precisely what it was. Having essentially gone back on its original position, the council still felt it necessary to take what was, in my opinion, a hastily considered statement on a highly complex and nuanced issue. Lawrence Goodman '92 Council Representative
...SALE: First-class polo complex in Selma, Texas. Features corrals, paddocks, barns, apartments, tennis courts. Will consider all offers over $7.5 million...