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...lone woman on the Times op-ed page, Anna Quindlen for years effectively managed to convey a voice that combined elements of the personal with the more public realm. She has been both praised and criticized for her style, one that raises questions about women's writing and its place in traditional male arenas. Was Quindlen's voice a refreshing addition to the Times, or a reinforcement of the stereotype that a woman only writes about the private sphere...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: A Different Voice | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...teenagers Slaby writes about share an inability to convey to others the depth and quality of their suffering. Their best efforts to describe what they are enduring may be found in journals or, most tragically, suicide notes. "I can't tolerate myself anymore," writes Sarah, once a vibrant college student. Writes David: "My mind is no longer my own, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: The Downward Spiral | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...absolute measurements, the Rwandan refugees filled infinitely less space than that taken up by a single explosion on Jupiter. But, paradoxically, images could not begin to convey the immensities and emormities of these settlements. The frame was too small to contain such an expanse of anguish. Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene -- a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench -- would suggest the horrors of the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking At Cataclysms | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

First, I must tell you that rare is the occasion when I pick up a pen to write such a letter but the unusually snide tone of those reviews really offended me and I very much want to convey these feeling to you. I am not a personal friend of Alek Keshisian's but I found your attacks against him and his work completely unnecessary and indefensible. you neglected to mention that Alek (according to my niece, a Harvard student), graduated summa cum laude. You preferred to focus on irrelevant nonsense such as his asthmatic difficulties and likening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review was 'Indefensible' and 'Snide' | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

Curiously, what works on the computer networks isn't necessarily what works on paper. Netwriters freely lace their prose with strange acronyms and "smileys," the little faces constructed with punctuation marks and | intended to convey the winks, grins and grimaces of ordinary conversations. Somehow it all flows together quite smoothly. On the other hand, polished prose copied onto bulletin boards from books and magazines often seems long- winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washington-based reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bards Of the Internet | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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