Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strength of the book are Updike's wit, the warmth of his writing and his wonderful, if not quite magical eye for imagery. These qualities combine to make a pleasant but still not satisfactory slightly longer that the taste of its gifts...
...would make a convention floor fight "a very strong possibility." Said Goldsmith: "This is not in the nature of a threat. This is in the nature of a prediction. The weatherman cannot stop the thunderstorm." At a Mondale fund-raising coffee on Saturday, several delegates looked him in the eye while shaking hands and got off a prearranged line...
...rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...irritating and trivial, but if one takes it on its own blithe terms it is highly enjoyable. Vreeland has the blunt realism of an old survivor (she is somewhere in her 80s), and the eye that made her career has not dimmed. The best colors? The yellow of a taxicab, the blue of the sky on Kennedy's Inauguration Day, the pink of a Provence carnation. Her hero is her husband of 46 years, whom she refers to almost solely in terms of his exquisite clothes-felt hats as smooth as satin, overcoats that Garbo loved. Helena Rubinstein...
There may thus be less in this expansive and expensive production than meets the eye. But the result, even with a price tag of $200, is by no means negligible. For openers, at least one major puzzle posed by earlier editions of the novel has been solved. Stephen Dedalus, a brooding young poet who wanders through Dublin June 16, 1904, is haunted by the recent death of his mother. Late at night, drunk and hallucinating, Stephen sees her in a vision and pleads: "Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men." She does...