Word: detailism
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That's how Warhol remembers Colacello in The Andy Warhol Diaries (807 pages), published in 1989, which is not exactly how Colacello remembers Colacello in this 514-page nag. Dueling diaries may be the perfect '80s moment, in which two shallow people recount in mind-numbing detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better...
...meantime he is working on a biography of Jean Genet and teaching courses on the French playwright and on creative writing at Brown University. Although his semiautobiographical coming-out themes are staples of gay fiction, White has transcended the genre with his wit, attention to sensuous detail and intensely explicit style. Stripping himself as bare as any writer in history, he writes with a passion that is meant to save his soul and those of his readers...
...does a Palestinian become a collaborator? Life under occupation is very inconvenient; the occupier controls every detail. The Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security agency, can arrange a thousand favors to ease the way. They might come to an unemployed university graduate, for example, and say, "Why suffer? We can make you a teacher." In return the Shin Bet will start by asking something very easy: "We just need the names of your neighbors." By degrees the collaborator is drawn deeper into the web. If he tries to retreat, ^ the Israelis say, "We will expose you as a collaborator...
...enough witticisms--I'm a critic, so the first thing I should do is tell you, in gory detail, everything that was wrong with the film. I will, in just a minute, and the list will be pretty long, too. There was enough wrong with the film that at the final, supposedly dramatic ending, most of the audience was guffawing instead of sobbing. But it takes a lot of chutzpah to do things as badly as the cast and crew of this movie does, and I have to admit that, in a perverse way, I respect that. And, aesthetic sensibilities...
...accept a unified Germany as a member of NATO. Said an adviser to French President Francois Mitterrand: "We must convince the Soviets that NATO is not a threat to their security, even with -- and especially with -- a united Germany included in its ranks. All the rest is essentially detail...