Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways the repertoire of the makers of the Book of Kells was extremely limited: a narrow range of pigments, a relatively small number of motifs and, as the Met's catalogue points out, "no tradition of representational art and no background of iconology." But the early Irish monks did have world enough and time. The bare silence of the scriptoria ensured that. Kells remains the stupendous proof of how, under certain conditions, the hermetic life breeds an ecstatic liberty. In its minutely traced webs of knotwork, its dazzling combinations and repetitions, its mazes and meanders, spirals, volutes...
...eight-week series, which started Oct. 27, focuses on three fictional New York City families, following their his tories from 1880 to 1900. There are the poor Irish immigrants, the middle-class clergyman's family and the railroad-and bank-owning aristocrats. Real events, such as the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, provide the framework for each episode. The scriptwriters, unhappily, are responsible for the rest...
...include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years ago, after an older facility burned, it cost more than $16 million?the most money the town had ever spent on anything. Medford's 60,300 residents, many of them blue-collar families of Italian and Irish descent, did not mind...
...ands" are cheap: "And Mr. Arland ask ing him why he hadn't seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...
Such virtues, however, come smothered in blather and blarney. Donleavy has always been among the most mannered of writers, and his habits increasingly seem designed as distractions. He constructs paragraphs as if the Irish government had imposed a tax on verbs. Words...