Word: fannings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That's hardly a profound point, whether you agree with it or not, but it does set the tone for what follows. Both the Naipaul fan and the general reader will turn the pages of A Writer's People with mounting dismay, not simply because it compares poorly with his previous work - the slow waning of which has been well documented - but because it indulges Naipaul's famous petulance to such an extent that the man himself fails at looking and feeling, whatever his book's subtitle might be. In place of truth-telling, he has substituted superciliousness and spite...
...Writers from earlier periods fare a little better, but not much. Naipaul is a fan of the early Flaubert, whose lightness of touch he admiringly notes in Madame Bovary, but whose later heavy-handedness (in works such as Salammbô) Naipaul describes with rather laborious detail himself. So who does Naipaul like? Maupassant, Twain and "the Russians (with the exception of Turgenev...
...Covent Garden or La Scala, but equal to the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre's revenue for the whole of 2006. "It thrills me to know that these are the same melodies listened to by people 600 years ago," says 25-year-old marketing manager Ma Jun, a new fan...
...this scintillating Rockies-Red Sox World Series? “Juiced about the Red Sox!” he shouted with an awkward pump of his fist. “I just knew they were going to pull off this comeback.” You, a Red Sox fan? I refuse to believe it. You’re an all-American, with deep Midwestern roots. “Yeah man, I love it back home. I’ve got some heartland values and all that. But I’m living in Boston right now, and while...
...hard not to conclude, at this point, that Somebody Up There is a Schwarzenegger fan. How else does a muscle-bound guy with a heavy accent become a major movie star and then governor of Cauleeforneeah? And now, with wildfires raging from Simi Valley to San Diego, Someone dials down the wind and cranks up the humidity just in time to hand Arnold another triumph...