Word: freneticism
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Amid the honking horns, clattering sheets of metal covering potholes and crashing blows of construction workers fixing the streets, Hines leads the group into a frenetic mix of funk and jazz tap, taking his rhythm from the sounds around him.
Joyce Carol Oates, 50, has done nothing of the sort. For the past two decades she has produced roughly a novel a year, plus numerous collections of short stories, criticism and essays. She has written plays and even, two years ago, a nonfiction work on boxing. This frenetic production has...
While keeping all these odd characters, including his own, in frenetic movement, Exley again demonstrates his skill at hallucinatory free association. The point of the exercise may be lost on those who expect stories to make sense. For Exley addicts, there is another concern. He calls Last Notes "the third...
So runs a satirical ad for a law-school deanship, concocted by New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, who, like many another legal scholar, had no interest in the recently vacant dean's spot at his university. Over the past four years, 125 of the 174 law schools accredited...
Confused? Screenwriters Pierson and Rubel hope you'll be, at least at first. They want you to be seeing double before you've settled in your seat. Fanciers of '30s screwball comedy may chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn...