Word: floridation
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...Watergate felon turned Evangelical Charles Colson have jumped in with first novels this fall. Robertson's galvanizing The End of the Age (Word; 374 pages; $21.99) is about a meteor catastrophe worthy of the book of Revelation; Colson's Gideon's Torch (Word; 551 pages; $21.99) is a florid tirade against abortion...
...early age. The daughter of an Air Force meteorologist and a teacher, she was mercurially moody as a child and became severely depressed as an adolescent. At 16 she felt the first intoxicating high of mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people try to kill themselves...
...outrageous men and women and with jealousy, revenge, gunfire, deadly sea swells and lust in a lighthouse, all set in the tiny Newfoundland community of Witless Bay (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock) just after the turn of the century. The author writes well against this florid grain, producing extravagant melodrama in language that is strict, laconic and evocative...
...American reputation bottomed out in 1964 with a show of nine florid paintings called Discourse on Commodus. They were trashed as a fiasco, in print and by word of mouth. Commodus was the degenerate son of Marcus Aurelius; he became Emperor in the 2nd century A.D., went mad and was strangled. Given the New York art world's self-absorption at the time, it seems fitting that Commodus' assassin was an athlete named Narcissus. Perhaps because of the trauma of their reception, the Commodus paintings are not in moma's show. In any case, Twombly was repatriated to America...
...agilely soars through florid lines and shows great stamina in a work that demands her presence onstage almost constantly. Frank Ragsdale as her lover Alfredo possesses a lyric tenor voice that fills the hall effortlessly even in his quietest moments. They blend almost instinctively in their duets...