Word: downes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The other writers lapse into a bland, shopping list prose style which may be suitable for album liner notes but waxes tedious after 30 lines. Even Nat Hentoff, a normally fine writer, gets bogged down by his habit of quoting extensively from the artists themselves. A few anecdotes are enough...
The re-publication of this 22-year-old book is justified by the current renaissance of interest in classic jazz, and the decision to package the book as new and thus capitalize on Hentoff's now-respected name can be written off as good marketing, but the publishers have made...
You don't have to be a philosopher to figure out that the essence of Ferrante's game is her speed. Watching her dart past defenders, streak down the field after a loose ball, or break away from midfield to score all justify her reputation as one of the most...
Although it seems ridiculous now--given her success and the team's undefeated season--Ferrante said, "At the beginning of the year, my expectations were so high that I was scared this year would be a let-down. I thought 'no way is it going to be as good as...
A skeptic who contemplates Mailer's labors in orchestrating all these interviews is tempted to think that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Typing. But Mailer does not work stupidly; the flat, banal voices mustered here soon become haunting. The book is like an immense issue of the National...