Word: echoeing
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...instead of the kind of throwaway catch-phrase that prevails in feature journalism, and he tries to catch the minutiae and inflections of speech that best reveal his subjects. At times, his debt to Wolfe becomes embarrassingly apparent in its magnitude, especially in his stock-car pieces, which always echo Wolfe's classic "The Last American Hero." The Wolfe style does have its limits, because it requires being able to spend long periods of time with subjects who are going about their normal lives; this precludes writing about most politicians, for instance, but Hemphill's particular interests make Wolfe...
Moses's name appeared constantly in the press, but the news media were generally content to echo his press releases and confine themselves to orgies of adulation every time Moses cut the ribbon for a bridge or a playground. Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker is only the second book-length study of Robert Moses to be published--but it almost singlehandedly makes up for this lack of biographical information about a man whom Lewis Mumford called the greatest influence on American cities in this century...
...sounds, vaguely familiar, echo in the void: Patti Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...
...know quite what to make of the Watergate business and had relatively little curiosity about it because it was not catching on as a campaign issue. The networks did little original reporting. Reuven Frank, then president of NBC News, says that television at that stage served as a "national echo chamber" for the work of others...
...sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley on old tracks...