Word: finest
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ONLY WHEN HARDWICK focuses upon a work of fiction does she unite form with content. The title essay, "Bartleby in Manhattan", is one of the finest in the collection. She takes Herman Melville's novella. "Bartleby the Scrivener", and dissects it as a verbal tour de force. Bartleby speaks only 37 times in a story of 16,000 words concerning himself, and each time he speaks he does so in a variation of the phrase "I would prefer not to." Hardwick convincingly equates Bartleby's character with the modern New Yorker; his footlessness is the predecessor...
...also many other things: an astute critic of literature and popular culture, a journalist who turned political writing into an art form, the finest English essayist of his century. Those who know of him only as a grand bogey, a synonym for some terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...
Several surgeons are currently working on Cimino's case, many of them Yale Medical School professors. "These surgeons are the finest she can get," said Anthony...
...Paul Theroux must have died if he has tired of London [Oct. 31]. I hope no one is deterred from visiting Great Britain because of the negative feelings Theroux reveals in his new book The Kingdom by the Sea. Tourists would miss the chance to know some of the finest people anywhere...
...staff cuts. Also last week, the ax fell on the best of the shows, NBC'S Overnight, which drew 1.5 million households a night but lost $10 million. Said Executive reducer Deborah Johnson: "Apparently cable is no longer viewed as such a threat " Explained Frank: "Overnight was our finest hour but the cost was much greater than the income...