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All the elements seem to have been assembled for a spirited feminist parable about the oppressive choices that society forces on women. Indeed, that story can be found within A Southern Family, but so can many others. In her seventh novel, Gail Godwin again displays the narrative verve and generosity...
Harvard film experts said the movies areimportant because they constitute the birth ofcinema and demonstrate the two major genres of themedium--realism and illusion.
Grooms is best when some menace is allowed to peep through the bonhomie, just as he is worst when he is most folksy. The Woolworth Building, leaning forward as though to resist some invisible gale, with old Frank Woolworth huddled like a crazed alchemist in its tower and a dragon...
Yet Baxter's methods are ultimately less frustrating than beguiling. In rewinding his story, the author provides a fascinating illusion of consolidation. Hugh and Dorsey do not grow apart; they are put together again, reknit into their shared heritage of parents and the past. Life does not happen that way...
Laxalt also discovered the Shrinkage Phenomenon, a mysterious effect that diminishes prospects' stature as soon as they enter the race. As Cuomo observed last week, "The minute Bradley or Nunn or Cuomo or Bumpers or Celeste actually run, they become dwarfs like everyone else. The press will see to that...