Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's only Jewish performer, balanced by his thorough familiarity with the roots of country music, makes him potentially invaluable as an imaginative and broadening influence on the industry. But his potential is far from fulfilled in this album, as he doubtless knows. Maybe that's why the jacket shows him burying his face in his hands. At least he has a sense of shame...
Updike speaks of 'Rabbit' Angstrom in a detached way: Rabbit was "happy working in Mrs. Smith's garden." He "pined after an animal existence." Updike wouldn't be, and doesn't. The dust jacket photo for A Month of Sundays shows him in a pin-stripe suit and shiny black shoes, flashing a tolerant half-smile at his walking companion, who has been cut from the picture. He holds two crisp autographed copies of his latest book under his left elbow, while his left hand absently attends to an itch on his right pinky...
...rest extraneous and distracting. The mediocre sermon early in the month is realistically valid, but artistically wrong. As something written to a preacher in a desert motel, it is revealing and effective. But it is mediocre writing nonetheless, and that is not Marshfield's name on the dust jacket...
...skillful arrangement of space and stillness, a brush drawing of love and vengeance not ultimately convincing, but perhaps ultimately not meant to convince. Yet the novel's measure is that its most fascinating feature may be the face of the writer bleakly regarding the reader from the dust jacket. Scraps of knowledge help: Kawabata, the author of Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968; he wrote no novel after this one; he killed himself at age 72 in 1972. The jacket photograph obviously was made toward the end of his life...
...audience frequently interrupts Jackson with applause, but it is polite applause, not the huzzahs of which American political dreams are made. Afterward, a man in a brocade dinner jacket observes: "A great evening, just a great evening." But the pros in Jackson's entourage know better. They are unhappy with most of the speech, know that it lacked fire and vision, that Jackson should have had this audience standing on the tables. After dinner, a Los Angeles businessman approaches two of Jackson's aides and says: "I know he's a great...