Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many a talented nonfiction writer, Malcolm has come to think of herself as an artist. Her narratives proclaim her a storyteller, not just a fact gatherer. Without that gift and some measure of literary license -- with only a daily newspaper's flat objectivity -- a 48,500-word profile would be unbearable. Perhaps she could make a case for broadening the boundaries of "responsible journalism." She has not. Her defense is that her quotations are literal. They ought to be. Writers use the quoted word because it has a special piquancy -- the sacred appeal of being, in an often shadowy...
...flat is on a steep hill overlooking the city. Every third or fourth house bears the mark of a night of ethnic cleansing that came last year, when the mosque that stood next to the 14th century Turkish citadel was reduced to rubble and about 10,000 Muslims were driven away or killed. The entire neighborhood has been repopulated with Serbs from Zenica...
...shows, judges evaluate the equestrians according to the ease and poise with which participants control their horses while trotting, walking and cantering on flat terrain or jumping over fences. The team consists of beginner, novice, intermediate, and open candidates. Some members have been riding for many years, while others have never been on, or even seen a real horse...
...seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions," an opinion which has not been shared by a number of past Crimson reviewers. Her comment that the chorus' performance was "plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing that a flat would drop on her" was insensitive, unhelpful and obviously not shared by everyone (please note the independent review...
...Rudnick's 1991 Broadway comedy I Hate Hamlet: "Fame pays better. Fame has beachfront property. Fame needs bodyguards." But Rudnick's pay is fine, thanks. He doesn't need Malibu acreage; he has a dashingly ornate apartment -- one previously tenanted by John Barrymore, just like the I Hate Hamlet flat -- in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Rudnick would laugh off bodyguards; he is an unguarded fellow in an edgy age. "Paul is so charming," says his old friend William Ivey Long, a Tony-winning costume designer, "that you suspect something is lurking underneath. But amazingly, he really is a nice...