Word: eulogist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to believe." Aw, come on. There is nothing "transcendent" about Sultan's work. It is decorative and materialistic. Most of its motifs come from photographs, not direct observation; its style is distanced and gloomily elegant, enlivened by discreet erotic puns between, for instance, lemons and breasts...
...third novel, as in his 16 plays, Gurney remains a mordantly comic eulogist whose strengths are mood, milieu and character. The title refers to a black-tie dance, the grandest event on the social calendar back when there was a Society. The privileged crowd thinned out in the '60s, when the young singles and couples moved on to other cities or, more likely, the suburbs, to alcohol or to the angry consciousness of the Viet Nam epoch. Two decades later, a couple of nostalgic veterans of the deb-party circuit decide to revive the Snow Ball. Cooper Jones...