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...invocation of Mount Ararat is meant to raise the eyes heavenward, Thomas' repeated mention of Russia's greatest poets from Pushkin to Pasternak is obviously intended to heighten the moral tone of this melodrama of murderers, scoundrels and sadistic sex. As Thomas well knows, poets have historically served as a symbol of redemption in Russia. But merely dropping their names will not redeem Ararat for readers who expected more from the author of The White Hotel. -By Patricia Blake
...said he was a genius. "This boy can make a bomb out of anything," Windsor said. Billy Arthur Jr. was then asked what was the point of his bombs, and he said, "To make a big noise, of course." Anyone within earshot who possessed common sense then gazed heavenward, anticipating a collapsing Taurus...
...fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical: "Many years later...
...what do you think he saw? Yes, it was a beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed the camera heavenward and pressed a button. The little boy from suburbia had begun to tell his story...
...assertive memorial. The National Review, calling for a sculpture, sees the black granite, sunken walls and unalphabetical roster as a conspiracy to dishonor the dead. Carhart, a Purple Heart winner who lost out in the design competition (he proposed a statue of an officer ' offering a dead soldier heavenward) says the jury should : have consisted of war veterans, as if a beauty contest should be judged only by beauties...