Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclusion, but he has plenty of amusingly trenchant insights along the way. "I don't think odd couples are advisable in nonsitcom life," Blue muses, "in situation reality, in science non-fiction." Getting Over Homer is as much a bittersweet love story as it is an homage to the epigram. And it is terrific on both counts...
...Senator claims to have composed the book in longhand, drawing upon journals he kept for years. Aside from a sprightly epigram or three, which read as if they were recycled from speeches, he is scarcely more convincing as a writer than as an orator. Time Present, Time Past is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues. It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Most Angelenos of Mexican heritage, he notes, are laborers--documenting...
...smitten with him but because Lytton was. Yet their menage a trois is presented blandly, and her forays in search of sexual satisfaction have little dramatic consequence. Mostly this is a movie in which people take soulful country strolls or wait expectantly for Lytton to lob a withering epigram...
...feminist writer (and a "radical" one at that), but Morning in the Burned House reveals an authorial voice that is far more complex. Make no mistake, Atwood's voice is, and always has been, undeniably female. Although she has retreated some from the stance of her now famous epigram "you fit into me/like a hook into an eye/a fish hook/an open eye," the idea of Atwood-as-radical is still strong. But Atwood also understands instinctually the difference between politically-charged writing and propaganda...
...stares out at the tortured futuristic landscape of Judge Dredd with a macho hauteur that seems to say, "Who's tougher than me?" And the answer is, the bosses of the major film studios. Compared with them, Stallone and his fellow summer-movie heroes--those mean-eyed, pumped-up, epigram-expectoratin' cinema studs--are prissy little honor-roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition. This...